Reggie Burrows Hodges's "Turning a Big Ship" at the Addison Gallery in Andover takes on maritime art
Reggie Burrows Hodges’s “Turning a Big Ship” brings overlooked tales to the surface.
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'Fragments of Epic Memory' is now open for viewing at the Portland Museum of Art
'Fragments of Epic Memory' is an immersive encounter with the Caribbean and its diaspora that vividly intertwines past and present, memory and myth, a
Source: artdaily.com
AP Book Review: Poet recalls stormy life growing up Rasta in Jamaica and her struggle to break free
It’s not unusual for an autobiography to chart a person’s passage from rags to riches, ignorance to enlightenment, or bondage to freedom. It is unusual to find one as powerful and disturbing as Safiya...
Source: jamaicaobserver.com
Poet Safiya Sinclair: 'As a girl I felt small within Rastafari' | Autobiography and memoir
The Jamaican poet on her new memoir chronicling life with an authoritarian father, reconfiguring the postcard image of her homeland and her love of Marvel comic books
Source: theguardian.com
My Father's Land: The indelible marks of slavery in Jamaica – Repeating Islands
Issue 3 of Stranger’s Guide (which focuses on the Caribbean—see previous post Strangers Guide Issue 3: Dedicated to the Caribbean) includes Courtney Desiree Morris’s fascinating personal/historical exploration of the vestiges of slavery in Jamaica and our “tendency” to forget. The author explains, “Slavery produced a void in black social memory.” Here are just a few…
Source: repeatingislands.com