Jane Bryce

Jane Bryce was born and brought up in Tanzania, and has since lived in Italy, the UK and Nigeria, where she did her doctoral research on Nigerian women’s writing at Obafemi Awolowo University, 1983-88. Since 1992, she has taught at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, where she is Professor of African Literature and Film. She publishes in the areas of contemporary African and Caribbean fiction, postcolonial cinema and creative writing, and was founder and Co-director of the Barbados Festival of African and Caribbean Film. She is the author of Chameleon (Peepal Tree Press, 2007) a collection of short fiction, and the editor of Caribbean Dispatches: Inside Stories of the Caribbean (Macmillan, 2006), and also contributes to newspapers and journals in the Caribbean and Nigeria. She is working on a memoir/travelogue/portrait of a place drawing on her memories and recent experience of Tanzania.

Bleeding, wailing and hypnosis:

Art as talisman against violence and trauma for a Vincentian artist

Jane Bryce (University of the West Indies, Cave Hill)

Caroline ‘bops’ Sardine is a young Vincentian artist working in the media of painting, installation and assemblage employing an iconography redolent of violence and trauma. The paper is concerned to decode this iconography, and the graffiti-like text which often adorns it, in order not only to tease out its significations, but also to examine how it speaks to textual and artistic conventions employed by other regional artists. By highlighting the dialogue between verbal and visual, it will suggest an intertextuality which goes beyond generic classification.