A View from the Field (60 mins) explores the life’s work and the political era of Jamaican literary laureate, historian, fiction writer, sociologist and community activist Erna Brodber. Brodber, one of Jamaica’s great literary figures of contemporary times, is best known for such novels as Myal and Louisiana, and for a number of historical and sociological studies. She has received the Jamaican Order of Distinction, multiple Commonwealth Writers’ Prizes, the Musgrave Prize, and the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for her works.
A View from the Field (2023) credits: executive producer, Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo; director/producer, Mark Purushotham; subject matter consultants, Catherine John and Julia John; research coordinator, Destiny O. Birdsong; research assistant, Brooke Hazen.