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Erna Brodber

Erna Brodber

Jamaicanb. 1940Literary Fiction

Jamaican novelist and sociologist whose experimentally structured novels Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home and Myal explore Jamaican folk culture and the psychology of colonial trauma with formal innovation.

Works

  • Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come HomeExperimental novel about memory fragmentation following psychiatric hospitalization→
  • MyalNovel exploring spirit possession, healing, and African diaspora resilience in Caribbean→
  • LouisianaHistorical fiction about a woman tracing familial roots through slavery and diaspora→
  • The Rainmaker's Mistake→
  • Nothing's Mat→

Related

Jamaica Kincaid·Jean Rhys·Derek Walcott
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