Hyacinth M Simpson
Biographic Data
| ID | 784056 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hyacinth M Simpson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hyacinth M |
| FAMILY NAME | Simpson |
| SIGNATURE | SIMPSON H M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Toronto Metropolitan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Is all o’ we one?”: Creolization and ethnic identification in Samuel Selvon’s “Turning Christian”
Samuel Selvon’s fiction reveals the author’s abiding concern with questions of identity and community and his investment in reconciling the seemingly conflicting subjects of creolization and ethnic identification in Caribbean societies, particularly in his native Trinidad. The pervasive and often violent ethnic conflict between Trinidadians of Indian and African heritage is linked to constructions of the nation in which claims to, as well as excl…
Re-framing the colonial Caribbean: Joscelyn Gardner's White Skin, Black Kin: A Creole Conversation Piece
The article discusses the role that the visual arts and museums—through the way their framing and selection choices shape viewers’ perception—play in the construction and deconstruction of post/colonial Caribbean identities. The locus of the analysis is a multimedia installation titled White Skin, Black Kin: A Creole Conversation Piece, which was mounted at the Barbados Museum by Barbadian Canadian visual artist Joscelyn Gardner in 2004. The arti…
The In-Between Worlds of Olive Senior: An Interview
He Drown She in the Sea (review)
Resurgent (Rise Again): The Last Repatriation of Indo-Caribbean Indentured Labourers
Until the pursuit of a Master's degree demanded a research focus, I only knew fragments of Indo-Caribbean immigration history, as overheard in conversations between my grandfather and father; I had
Voicing the Text: The Making of an Oral Poetics in Olive Senior's Short Fiction
'Voicing the Text':The Making of an Oral Poetics in Olive Senior's Short Fiction Hyacinth M. Simpson (bio) Long before West Indian literature became a legitimate category of writing—brought about mainly by support for and the publication of novels by West Indians living in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s—among the new literatures in English, West Indian writers had already begun to produce an impressive body of short fiction; short fiction is, ind…
Is all o’ we one?”: Creolization and ethnic identification in Samuel Selvon’s “Turning Christian”
Samuel Selvon’s fiction reveals the author’s abiding concern with questions of identity and community and his investment in reconciling the seemingly conflicting subjects of creolization and ethnic identification in Caribbean societies, particularly in his native Trinidad. The pervasive and often violent ethnic conflict between Trinidadians of Indian and African heritage is linked to constructions of the nation in which claims to, as well as excl…
The In-Between Worlds of Olive Senior: An Interview
Voicing the Text: The Making of an Oral Poetics in Olive Senior's Short Fiction
'Voicing the Text':The Making of an Oral Poetics in Olive Senior's Short Fiction Hyacinth M. Simpson (bio) Long before West Indian literature became a legitimate category of writing—brought about mainly by support for and the publication of novels by West Indians living in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s—among the new literatures in English, West Indian writers had already begun to produce an impressive body of short fiction; short fiction is, ind…
Resurgent (Rise Again): The Last Repatriation of Indo-Caribbean Indentured Labourers
Until the pursuit of a Master's degree demanded a research focus, I only knew fragments of Indo-Caribbean immigration history, as overheard in conversations between my grandfather and father; I had
He Drown She in the Sea (review)
The In-Between Worlds of Olive Senior: An Interview
Re-framing the colonial Caribbean: Joscelyn Gardner's White Skin, Black Kin: A Creole Conversation Piece
The article discusses the role that the visual arts and museums—through the way their framing and selection choices shape viewers’ perception—play in the construction and deconstruction of post/colonial Caribbean identities. The locus of the analysis is a multimedia installation titled White Skin, Black Kin: A Creole Conversation Piece, which was mounted at the Barbados Museum by Barbadian Canadian visual artist Joscelyn Gardner in 2004. The arti…
Is all o’ we one?”: Creolization and ethnic identification in Samuel Selvon’s “Turning Christian”
Samuel Selvon’s fiction reveals the author’s abiding concern with questions of identity and community and his investment in reconciling the seemingly conflicting subjects of creolization and ethnic identification in Caribbean societies, particularly in his native Trinidad. The pervasive and often violent ethnic conflict between Trinidadians of Indian and African heritage is linked to constructions of the nation in which claims to, as well as excl…
History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (4 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Creole language (2 works)