English 4829 (Jamaican-Canadian Women's Writing: Discussion with d'bi Young Anitafrika

d’bi Young Anitafrika speaks to students at Grenfell Campus who are taking a special topics course entitled Jamaican-Canadian Women’s Writing and who have studied d’bi’s book of poetry art on black (2005). d’bi talks to students about the book, dub poetry, creative writing and other issues. Produced by Stephanie McKenzie, Grenfell Campus, Corner Brook, Newfoundland

word!sound!powah!

d’bi Young Anitafrika performs the third installment in her sankofa trilogy: word!sound!powah! The monodrama depicts young dub poet benu sankofa who is swept up in the violence of the 2012 national election in Jamaica. The country is on the cusp of a political coup, and in the heat of the struggle between young radicals and the establishment, benu is accused of involvement in a political assassination. Amidst all the corruption and turmoil, who will stand up for the land they love? benu ultimately finds strength in her maternal ancestors to fight for the freedom she believes in, with her courage and dub poetry as her primary tools. Following the performance, a question and answer period about the play and the issues it raises takes place with d’bi and the Corner Brook audience. Produced by Stephanie McKenzie and Shanda Williams, Grenfell Campus, Corner Brook, Newfoundland

Ifa Maroon Rising

Ifa Maroon Rising is a musical-poetical collaboration between dub poet d'bi Young Anitafrika (see http://dbi333.com/) and dj l'Oqenz (see http://www.loqenz.com/). Ifa Maroon Rising represents the intersection of Ifa spiritual tradition, Maroon revolutionary legacy, and woman-centered liberation. Produced by Stephanie McKenzie and Shanda Williams, Grenfell Campus, Corner Brook, Newfoundland

Queer Play : An Anthology of Queer Women's Performance and Plays

"Through these works by both emerging and established Canadian queer artists, this diverse anthology finds itself at the intersection of queer life and art, delving into the resulting subcultures and always-changing concepts of identity and performance. In this book, queer is not just something someone is; it's also something they do. " -- p. [4] de couverture

Reimagining Caribbean Time and Space: Speculative Fiction

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Life writing, gender and Caribbean narrative 1970-2015: itinerant self-making in the postcolonial Caribbean

This chapter argues that contemporary Caribbean women exploit the malleability of life-writing as a genre in a variety of ways that recognize the precariousness of life-making and self-making in the post-plantation Caribbean. While each of the writers discussed here critically refashions life-narrative for their own distinct purposes, they frequently share an interest in filtering personal life experiences through familiar familial and regional histories to emphasize the imbrication of the personal and political. Narrating life-stories is presented in these texts as inextricably linked to the difficult cultural politics of self-making that is so powerfully evidenced from The History of Mary Prince through to the present. While life-writing remains haunted by the region’s violent history, Caribbean women writers continue to excavate that history in order to record, affirm, rescue, restore and celebrate self and life-making possibilities, however fragmented, precarious or itinerant