The Life of Una Marson, 1905-1965This 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
Hampton16 | 16 |
To Kingston23 | 23 |
The Cosmopolitan30 | 30 |
A voyage of heights and depths40 | 40 |
The arrivant46 | 46 |
Identity politics 1930s style68 | 68 |
The Autobiography of a Brown Girl80 | 80 |
A man who did much for his country and another who did much for his race87 | 87 |
To the BBC141 | 141 |
A Caribbean voice157 | 157 |
Silenced and depressed175 | 175 |
Pioneering people181 | 181 |
Whats wrong with Jamaica191 | 191 |
America198 | 198 |
Independence208 | 208 |
Haifa and London revisited216 | 216 |
10 | 92 |
Fascism and antifascism98 | 98 |
A place in politics107 | 107 |
The Moth and the Star117 | 117 |
A womans little madness129 | 129 |
Epilogue226 | 226 |
| 228 | |
| 235 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abyssinian African Amy Bailey Angie Baptist BBC written archives Beinecke Rare Book British broadcast Caribbean Caribbean Voices Carmel Training Centre Caversham Children Fund club colonial conference Cosmopolitan cultural Daily Gleaner England English Erica Ethel feel feminist friends George Orwell girls Haifa Hampton Harold Moody Ibid interviewed island Isobel James Weldon Johnson Jamsave Kingston Labour Langston Hughes Larsens later League of Coloured letter Library of Jamaica literary lived London looked Manley Manuscript Library Marson papers Miss Marson Moody Moth mother Mount Carmel Training Nancy Cunard National Library Negro Ofori organisation Paul Robeson Pioneer Press play Pocomania poems poet Poetry League political programme Public Opinion published race racial Save the Children secretary Selassie September Sister Kate social Solomon Marson Star Stella story talk theatre told Una Marson Una's West Indian West Indies Winifred Winifred Holtby woman women writers wrote young