Simply there: Lorna Goodison's gardens  

Oleh:

Fenwick, Mac

Jenis: Article from Article
Dalam koleksi: The Journal of Commonwealth Literature vol. 46 no. 3 (Sep. 2011), page 433-453.
Topik: belonging; gardens; Goodison; plants; postcolonial; ritual
Fulltext: Simply there-Lorna Goodison's.pdf (205.9KB)

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In Lorna Goodison’s earliest works, gardens are sites of resistance and liberation for the female creative self. But this view evolves in subsequent collections as her speakers come to recognize the historical materiality of Jamaican gardens as biological and ideological products of an imperial agricultural project of domination, control, and dispossession. The result of this recognition is a more nuanced and complicated view of Jamaican plantings – from imperial plantation and botanical garden to provision ground and flower garden – and of the sense of postcolonial belonging which their complexities make possible and perhaps even necessary. This sense of belonging embraces the complexity of being biologically invasive and imaginatively native within and to Jamaica; it also explores the limits of ritual and of what ritualized, poetic language can achieve in the face of the biological and historical realities embodied by Jamaican landscapes and ecologies.

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