Drisana Deborah Jack
(St. Martin, Netherlands Antilles) is a poet and visual artist. Her work currently deals with trans-cultural existence, memory, the effects of colonialism and mythology through re-memory. Salt, the sea and hurricanes reoccur as metaphors in her body of work. In her poetry and visual art she tries to go beyond the parameters of style and genres. Her literature is as much music, dance and art as it is text. For her artwork, which is an expression of a personal and cultural history, she uses paint, video, photography, sound and poetry. She has published two poetry collections, The Rainy Season (1997) and Skin (2006). Her visual art has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally. Her poetry has appeared in The Caribbean Writer and Calabash and has recited her work in the Caribbean, United States, South Africa and the Netherlands. Deborah Jack is an Assistant Professor of Art at New Jersey City University.
Past events
The film choice of Deborah Jack
The Saint Martin poet Drisana Deborah Jack compiled a programme of fragments of films on memory and time. English spoken.
Ode to the Caribbean woman
Austin Clarke and Drisana Deborah Jack, two Carribean writers in diaspora, discuss the role of the black Caribbean woman in their work. Bas Heijne chairs the discussion. English spoken.
