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Literatures in Englis Friday 30 September 2022
Literatures in Englis Friday 30 September 2022
Literatures in Englis Friday 30 September 2022
Lorna Goodison
Donnabang Kuwabang “Restoring the memories of joining between mother and son….”
Lorna Goodison’s poetry encompasses a wide range of topics reflecting her concern with
intersecting issues confronting postcolonial Africaribbean women writers: race, gender,
culture, spirituality, sexuality, class, language history and most of all, the reclamation of
an Africaribbean motherhood and matrilienage.
Because of motherhood is central to the experiences of most Africaribbean women,
Goodison’s desire to construct a Africaribbean matrilineage leads to positively consider
the issue of Africaribbean motherhood and mothering in response to her experience of
being a mother herself, and in contradiction to the decades of seeing Afrisporic mothering
as deviant and emasculatory of their men _ children.
Goodison’s poetic recovery is linked to the voices of other Africana “Womanists”
poets including; Claire Harris, Marlene Nourbese Phillips etc. {this is a review of Lorna
Goodison’s poetry}