Arrival of the Snake-Woman and Other Stories
Author: Olive Senior Category: Anthologies and Collections, High School and (Young) Adult, Historical Fiction, Middle School, Short Stories and Essays, Slavery, Small-Town Living and the Countryside, Social Class Differences Country: Jamaica, Caribbean Language: English Reading Age: High School and (Young) Adult, Middle School Share: More DetailsThe Toronto author’s Jamaican birthplace provides the setting for these powerful and poignant stories that span a period of roughly 150 years, from the closing days of slavery in 1838 to the 1980s.
The tensions wrought by rapid change and conflicting loyalties are at the heart of these stories, most beautifully evoked in the novella “Arrival of the Snake-Woman”. Here a young boy narrates the seminal event of his childhood in the late nineteenth century: the coming of a lonely Indian indentured woman into a mountain village.
Senior’s stories are leavened with wit and humour and the intricate play with language and her characters emerge as triumphant examples of the human spirit unravelling the complex weave of race, class, and cultural and ethnic identity.
Arrival of the Snake-Woman
Written by Olive Senior
Source: Publisher (TSAR Publications)
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