Honor Ford Smith
Autor/a de Lionheart Gal: Life Stories of Jamaican Women
Obres de Honor Ford Smith
Obres associades
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Gènere
- female
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 4
- També de
- 1
- Membres
- 40
- Popularitat
- #370,100
- Valoració
- 4.3
- Ressenyes
- 2
- ISBN
- 7
The introductions (general and to each play) by Honor Ford-Smith (herself an actress and activist) are immensely valuable as analysis and as testimonial accounts of the times. There is also a short glossary for the non-Jamaican reader.
Each of the plays has its particular strengths, although Stafford Ashani's "Masqueraders", the first chronologically, is, I would say, the most dramatically interesting. It's also the only one I saw performed.
This volume provides a depth of understanding of the Jamaica of the 1970s and 80s that no work of sociology or political science can. It is a book that should not only be on the shelves of scholars and students, but in the hands of anyone with any interest in the Caribbean, and anyone who wants to understand how Jamaica got to be the way it is.… (més)