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Olive Senior.
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In the following essay, O'Callaghan considers the political orientation of contemporary West Indian women's fiction through an examination of four short story collections written by Jama...
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In the following excerpt, Lalla views “Country of the One-Eyed God” as “a study in marronage because it is a tale of leaving and being left and consequently of the cold logic behi...
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In the following essay, Flockemann compares the treatment of ethnic and cultural identity in Senior's “Arrival of the Snake-Woman” and Agnes Sam's “Jesus is Indian.&...
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In the following essay, Lalla traces the changing language in Senior's story “Zig-zag,” arguing that “the shifting experiences and perspectives of the child protagonist eme...
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In the following essay, Pollard considers the depiction of women in Senior's short stories.
At a time when our societies are fighting silent and not so silent battles for recognition of women&#...
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In the following excerpt, Renk discusses the protagonist of “Arrival of the Snake-Woman” as a trickster figure.
According to Ramabai Espinet, Mama Glo is a “benign and powerful&#x...
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In the following review, Gerschel praises the well-crafted stories in Summer Lightning, concluding that it is “an outstanding collection by an extremely talented writer.”
One of the best...
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In the following interview, Senior discusses the major influences on her writing, the function of her creative work, and the implications of being a Jamaican writer.
The following interview was conduc...
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In the following essay, Pollard surveys the key thematic concerns in Senior's short stories and poetry.
Short stories and poems by Olive Senior have been appearing in journals and anthologies i...
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In the following essay, Pollard analyzes the language of Senior's stories and Lorna Goodison's verse in order to investigate how the two authors “use the complex language situatio...
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In the following essay, Gafoor elucidates Senior's depiction of the Caribbean female experience in her story “The Arrival of the Snake-Woman,” contending that the story “se...
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In the following essay, Patteson regards Senior as a dominant voice in the development of a postcolonial West Indian literature and delineates the defining characteristics of the stories comprising Su...
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In the following essay, Thieme finds several of the stories in Summer Lightning to be autobiographical in nature and focused on the issue of identity.
Superficially the bulk of the stories in Olive Se...
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In the following review, Thorpe provides a favorable evaluation of Discerner of Hearts.
The nine stories in Olive Senior's collection Discerner of Hearts are set in Jamaica, from the colonial p...
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Critical Essay by Evelyn O'Callaghan
