Caribbean Women Writers

Fiction in English

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

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Beskrivning

Caribbean Women Writers is a collection of scholarly articles on the fiction of selected Caribbean women writers from Antigua, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad. It includes not only close critical analysis of texts by Erna Brodber, Dionne Brand, Zee Edgell, Jamaica Kincaid, Paule Marshall, Pauline Melville, Jean Rhys and Olive Senior, but also personal statements from the writers Merle Collins, Beryl Gilroy, Vernella Fuller and Velma Pollard.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1998-12-10
Mått:140 x 216 x 26 mm
Vikt:316 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:233
Upplaga:1999
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9780333637692

Utforska kategorier

Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

LAURA NIESEN DE ABRUNA Ithaca CollegeMERLE COLLINS WriterALISON DONNELL Nottingham Trent UniversityVERNELLA FULLER WriterBERYL GILROY WriterHEIDI SLETTEDAHL Central Lancashire UniversityDENISE DECAIRES NARAIN University of SussexADELE S. NEWSON Florida International UniversityVELMA POLLARD WriterCHARLOTTE STURGESS University of ToursSARAH LAWSON WELSH University College of Ripon and York

Recensioner i media

The volume reflects the growing, well-deserved interdisciplinary interest in the region. Choice

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction Reflections; Beryl Gilroy The Most Important Reason I Write; Velma Pollard Writing Fiction, Writing Reality; Merle Collins The Development of My Art as a Fiction Writer; Vernella Fuller Literary Allusion in the Fiction of Jean Rhys; Thorunn Lonsdale Perceptions of Place: Geopolitical and Cultural Positioning in Paule Marshall's Novels; Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson The Body of the Woman in the Body of the Text: the Novels of Erna Brodber; Denise deCaires Narain The Short Fiction of Olive Senior; Alison Donnell Pauline Melville's Shape-Shifting Fictions; Sarah Lawson Welsh Jamaica Kincaid's Writing and the Maternal-Colonial Matrix; Laura Niesen de Abruna The Fiction of Zee Edgell; Adele S. Newson Dionne Brand: Writing the Margins; Charlotte Sturgess Fiction by Caribbean Women Writers Further Reading Index Acknowledgements