Lorna Goodinson Flashcards
Hannan (2014)- Failure and Triumph
“With compassion and empathy, Goodison writes about human failure and triumph.” and how they, in effect “guide us firmly to redemption”
Baugh (1986) - Communal Voice
” [her] capacity for imaginative empathy enables [her] to merge her personal voice with the communal voice”
Matrona (2015) - Breaking the Stereotype
Goodison’s goal is to “portray Jamaica and the Caribbean more broadly, in a more genuine way than most people stereotypically understand and represent it”
Baugh (1990) - Gender
He suggests that Goodison’s work articulates some of the concerns, impulses and tropes which have been identified by feminist critics
Kuwabong (1999) - Goodison’s mother
Goodison’s poetry is, “grounded in the representation of her mother as an archetype of herself”
” Her celebration of mothers sets the tone for a revisionist historical narrative that recovers and redeems all of those Afro-Caribbean women who were vilified by patriarchal histographers”
Calderaro (2008) - Real Characters (Nanny, Doris, Rosa Parks)
“she transforms her characters’ lives into eternal myths to be sung and remembered by future, spellbound generations.”
“mesmerized by this song of endurance and resilience which chronicles the lives of strong women…”
Robinson (2000) - What is Feminine?
Hers is a poetry that spawns “conflicting signals” for woman, questioning and uprooting various notions of the feminine.
Robinson (2000) - Use of Language and Dialect
Language offers a rich plethora of possibilities, which Goodison makes use of as she employs the “Queen’s English”, but also utilizes the dialect common to “the market women” even “Rasta man”.
Liddell (1990) - Image of the mother
“the image of the mother” is that of “giver and nurturer of life; teacher and instiller of values and mores”
Cobham and Hodge (1987) - Solidarity of Women (Garden of Women Once Fallen)
Their perspectives . . . repeatedly.. . [show] a sense of
sisterly solidarity with mother figures, whose strengths and frailties assume new significance for daughters now faced with the challenge of raising children
Lorna goodison 2021- Road of the dread( journey motif)
“My own synthesis of things happening in my life at the time, I was embarking on my own life and journey”
Lorna goodison 2021- toad of the dread
“Influenced by your own internal conditions”
