Karina Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3742189 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karina Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karina |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Smiths Detection (Canada) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mapping a counter-topography through Popular Theatre
This article argues that Cindi Katz’s methodology of mapping topographies and counter-topographies may not always work effectively ‘on the ground’. By analysing Sistren Theatre Collective’s feminist activism, through which counter-topographies were mapped in Jamaica and Canada, this article evaluates the possibilities and realities of forging the types of ‘economic-political alliances’ Katz proposes as a way of fighting globalisation. The article…
“Once upon a time there was a little girl…”
This article argues that Scott Rankin’s play, Beasty Girl: The Secret Life of Errol Flynn, uses the life story of Errol Flynn as a metaphor for colonialism in order to contest colonial legal descriptors, such as terra, aqua, and filius nullius. The play focuses on the fictitious “illegitimate” Jamaican daughter of Flynn who travels to Tasmania to follow in her father’s footsteps. The more Carly, Flynn’s daughter, discovers about her father’s life…
Just Surviving
This article discusses Sistren Theatre Collective's play Domestick, performed at the Barn Theatre, Kingston, Jamaica in 1981 for local audiences and then in Canada for groups of domestic workers from the Caribbean, the Philippines, Europe and the UK. The play was also performed in Grenada and St Vincent when Sistren toured those islands in 1982. It is argued that Sistren's play is still relevant to contemporary debates on domestic work and the co…
The Attic of My Grandmother's Subconscious’
This article explores 'whiteness', 'illegitimacy' and migration in Jean Rhys's novel Wide Sargasso Sea and Honor Ford-Smith's short story 'Grandma's Estate'. Each writer responds to Charlotte Bronte's construction of the 'mad Creole woman' in order to writer her own, more complex account of race and class in the Caribbean. The article argues that Rhys and Ford-Smith represent 'outside' children in their respective texts as a way of showing how 'w…
Sugar, Sugar
Through an analysis of Sistren Theatre Collective's play The Case of Miss Iris Armstrong and the Collective's documentary film Sweet Sugar Rage, this article looks at the way the sexual division of labour on Jamaica's sugar plantations during the 1980s was based on the following gendered myths: women's labour capacity is lower than their male counterparts; and men are the breadwinners for their families. The article also critiques the sexism in t…
These Things not Marked on Paper
This article will look closely at the performance of tomboy identity in Joan Anim-Addo's collection of poetry Janie, Cricketing Lady, written as a tribute to her mother Jane Joseph, and Margaret Cezair-Thompson's novel The Pirate's Daughter, a fiction about Errol Flynn's 'outside' Jamaican daughter, May. It will argue that the ongoing affects of colonialism and patriarchy in the islands of Grenada and Jamaica, respectively, shape the life narrati…
Producing the Pacific
These Things not Marked on Paper
This article will look closely at the performance of tomboy identity in Joan Anim-Addo's collection of poetry Janie, Cricketing Lady, written as a tribute to her mother Jane Joseph, and Margaret Cezair-Thompson's novel The Pirate's Daughter, a fiction about Errol Flynn's 'outside' Jamaican daughter, May. It will argue that the ongoing affects of colonialism and patriarchy in the islands of Grenada and Jamaica, respectively, shape the life narrati…
Producing the Pacific
Sugar, Sugar
Through an analysis of Sistren Theatre Collective's play The Case of Miss Iris Armstrong and the Collective's documentary film Sweet Sugar Rage, this article looks at the way the sexual division of labour on Jamaica's sugar plantations during the 1980s was based on the following gendered myths: women's labour capacity is lower than their male counterparts; and men are the breadwinners for their families. The article also critiques the sexism in t…
These Things not Marked on Paper
This article will look closely at the performance of tomboy identity in Joan Anim-Addo's collection of poetry Janie, Cricketing Lady, written as a tribute to her mother Jane Joseph, and Margaret Cezair-Thompson's novel The Pirate's Daughter, a fiction about Errol Flynn's 'outside' Jamaican daughter, May. It will argue that the ongoing affects of colonialism and patriarchy in the islands of Grenada and Jamaica, respectively, shape the life narrati…
The Attic of My Grandmother's Subconscious’
This article explores 'whiteness', 'illegitimacy' and migration in Jean Rhys's novel Wide Sargasso Sea and Honor Ford-Smith's short story 'Grandma's Estate'. Each writer responds to Charlotte Bronte's construction of the 'mad Creole woman' in order to writer her own, more complex account of race and class in the Caribbean. The article argues that Rhys and Ford-Smith represent 'outside' children in their respective texts as a way of showing how 'w…
Just Surviving
This article discusses Sistren Theatre Collective's play Domestick, performed at the Barn Theatre, Kingston, Jamaica in 1981 for local audiences and then in Canada for groups of domestic workers from the Caribbean, the Philippines, Europe and the UK. The play was also performed in Grenada and St Vincent when Sistren toured those islands in 1982. It is argued that Sistren's play is still relevant to contemporary debates on domestic work and the co…
“Once upon a time there was a little girl…”
This article argues that Scott Rankin’s play, Beasty Girl: The Secret Life of Errol Flynn, uses the life story of Errol Flynn as a metaphor for colonialism in order to contest colonial legal descriptors, such as terra, aqua, and filius nullius. The play focuses on the fictitious “illegitimate” Jamaican daughter of Flynn who travels to Tasmania to follow in her father’s footsteps. The more Carly, Flynn’s daughter, discovers about her father’s life…
Mapping a counter-topography through Popular Theatre
This article argues that Cindi Katz’s methodology of mapping topographies and counter-topographies may not always work effectively ‘on the ground’. By analysing Sistren Theatre Collective’s feminist activism, through which counter-topographies were mapped in Jamaica and Canada, this article evaluates the possibilities and realities of forging the types of ‘economic-political alliances’ Katz proposes as a way of fighting globalisation. The article…
Caribbean history, culture, and politics (5 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Art history (2 works)