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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Olive Senior Information
406 words, approx. 1 pages
 Olive Marjorie Senior (b. 1941 in Trelawny, Jamaica) is a Jamaican poet and short story writer currently living in Canada. She went to Montego Bay High School For Girls, then at age 19 joined the staff of the Jamaica Gleaner in Kingston. She later won a... 
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 The Washington Post Senior Oliver Is Standing Tall For Oxon Hill
03/07/2002: 410 words, approx. 1 pages As fans stormed the court to celebrate Oxon Hill's improbable 64- 55 victory over third-ranked Suitland in the 4A South Region final on Saturday, a few students hoisted senior Charetta Oliver atop their shoulders and paraded the point guard around the gym. After... summary from source:
Mosaic (Winnipeg) Gardening in the diaspora: place and identity in Olive Senior's poetry.
12/01/2005: 7,686 words, approx. 26 pages Senior's poetry collection, Gardening in the Tropics, asserts the need for identity distinctions and dynamic exchanges, deploying the garden, in its ambivalent history as a space of colonial exclusion and postcolonial hybridity, as a figure for these processes. Senior both embraces and problematizes...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Evelyn O'Callaghan
8,668 words, approx. 29 pages
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 Jamaican female authors, including Senior's Summer Lightning.
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Critical Essay by Richard F. Patteson
7,707 words, approx. 26 pages
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 Summer Lightning and The Arrival of the Snake-Woman.
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Critical Essay by Miki Flockemann
6,782 words, approx. 23 pages
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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