{"product_id":"dead-woman-pickney-a-memoir-of-childhood-in-jamaica-9781771125475","title":"Dead Woman Pickney: A Memoir of Childhood in Jamaica","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDead Woman Pickney \u003c\/i\u003echronicles Yvonne Shorter Brown's life growing up in Jamaica between 1943 and 1965 and teaching in Canada from 1969. Told with stridency and humour, the stories include both personal experience and history.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Taking up the haunting memories of childhood, along with persistent racial marginalization of Black people, both globally and in Canada, the author sets out to construct a narrative that at once explains her own origins in the former slave society of Jamaica and traces the outsider status of Africa and its peoples. The author's quest to understand the absence of her mother and her mother's people from her life is at the heart of the narrative. The author struggles through life to discover the identity of her mother in the face of silence from her father's brutal family. In this updated edition she adds a coda, \"finding mother\", constructed from archives, genealogy, letters, and journals. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInitially published in 2010, this second edition includes expanded text and a foreword by Sonja Boon, author of\u003ci\u003e What the Oceans Remember.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYvonne Shorter Brown\u003c\/b\u003e is an Afro-Jamaican settler to Turtle Island. She is a distinguished educator with some 50 years' experience in various roles. Her research and writing focuses on the social, political, and economic legacies of the transatlantic slave trade, plantation-chattel slavery, and post-emancipation in the Americas. She is currently working on a political biography of Charles Archibald Reid, her maternal grandfather and a former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Jamaica. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSonja Boon\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Gender Studies at Memorial University. An award-winning researcher, writer, teacher, and flutist, she is passionate abut life writing, archives, and identity. For six years, she was principal flutist of the Portland Baroque Orchestra (Oregon). In 2020, she was awarded the Royal Society of Canada's Ursula Franklin Award in Gender Studies. \u003ci\u003eWhat the Oceans Remember\u003c\/i\u003e is her fourth book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wilfrid Laurier University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50380299763986,"sku":"9781771125475","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1bb3d580-b925-4679-aa89-4142ec89d90c.jpg?v=1728680128","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dead-woman-pickney-a-memoir-of-childhood-in-jamaica-9781771125475","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}