The life of Una Marson, 1905-65
By Delia Jarrett-Macauley
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- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 256
- Price: £19.99
- Published Date: April 2010
Description
This is an original, full length biography of Britain's first twentieth-century black feminist - Una Marson - poet, playwright, and social activist and BBC broadcaster.
Una Marson is recognised today as the first major woman poet of the Caribbean and as a significant forerunner of contemporary black writers; her story throws light on the problems facing politicised black artists. In challenging definitions of 'race' and 'gender' in her political and creative work, she forged a valiant path for later black feminists. Her enormous social and cultural contributions to the Caribbean and Britain have, until now, remained hidden in archives and memoirs around the world.
Based on extensive research and oral testimony, this biography embraces postcolonial realities and promise, and is a major contribution to British cultural history.
Contents
Preface
1 Parson's Baby
2 Hampton
3 To Kingston
4 The Cosmopolitan
5 Heights and Depths
6 The Arrivant
7 Identity Politics: 1930s style
8 The Autobiography of a Brown Girl
9 A man who did much for his country and another who did much for his race
10 Fascism and Anti-fascism
11 A place in Politics
12 The Moth and the Star
13 A Call to Downing Street
14 To the BBC
15 A Caribbean Voice
16 Silenced and Depressed
17 Pioneering People
18 What's wrong with Jamaica
19 America
20 Independence
21 Haifa and London Revisited
22 Epilogue
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Author
Delia Jarrett-Macauley is a novelist and writer. She has taught at the Universities of Kent and London