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This Strange Land

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These poems probe the definition of Motherland. Shara McCallum homogenizes childhood memories of her native Jamaica with a revised understanding of danger and corruption, teasing out notions of history, language, motherhood, rupture, memory, and identity. She weaves new cloth of oral tradition, struggling to arrange a comfort zone within the foreign manufactures of suburbia. Hers is the skilled music of a master.

Language: English

Pages: 80

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Alice James Books

Release: May 17, 2011

ISBN: 1882295862

ISBN 13: 9781882295869

This Strange Land

4.1/5 ( ratings)

These poems probe the definition of Motherland. Shara McCallum homogenizes childhood memories of her native Jamaica with a revised understanding of danger and corruption, teasing out notions of history, language, motherhood, rupture, memory, and identity. She weaves new cloth of oral tradition, struggling to arrange a comfort zone within the foreign manufactures of suburbia. Hers is the skilled music of a master.

Language: English

Pages: 80

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Alice James Books

Release: May 17, 2011

ISBN: 1882295862

ISBN 13: 9781882295869

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