Dr Lucy Evans is Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature in the School of English, University of Leicester.

'Evans’s analysis shows both tensions and connections between literary and anthropological representations in the examined texts, her discussion of ‘creolization' demonstrates how her selected texts negotiate differences beyond two apparently incompatible positions of either a focus on common values in a unifying society or the play of differences in a plural society.'Melanie A. Murray, Journal of Postcolonial Writing

• Introduction1: Rural CommunitiesOlive Senior, Earl Lovelace and the short story formVillage communities in Olive Senior’s Summer Lightning and Other StoriesFrom country to city in Earl Lovelace’s A Brief Conversion and Other Stories2: Urban CommunitiesDowntown worldsUptown worldsWriting Kingston in Kwame Dawes’ A Place to Hide and Other Stories and Alecia McKenzie’s Satellite City and Other Stories3: National CommunitiesFugal voices in Lawrence Scott’s WitchbroomThe journey upriver in Mark McWatt’s Suspended Sentences: Fictions of Atonement4: Global CommunitiesThe diasporic family in Dionne Brand’s At the Full and Change of the MoonMobile readerships in Robert Antoni’s My Grandmother’s Erotic FolktalesConclusionAppendicesI: St Jerome in his StudyII: At the Full and Change of the Moon family treeIII: My Grandmother’s Erotic Folktales front cover imageBibliographyIndex

Dr Lucy Evans is Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature in the School of English, University of Leicester.

'Evans’s analysis shows both tensions and connections between literary and anthropological representations in the examined texts, her discussion of ‘creolization' demonstrates how her selected texts negotiate differences beyond two apparently incompatible positions of either a focus on common values in a unifying society or the play of differences in a plural society.'Melanie A. Murray, Journal of Postcolonial Writing

• Introduction1: Rural CommunitiesOlive Senior, Earl Lovelace and the short story formVillage communities in Olive Senior’s Summer Lightning and Other StoriesFrom country to city in Earl Lovelace’s A Brief Conversion and Other Stories2: Urban CommunitiesDowntown worldsUptown worldsWriting Kingston in Kwame Dawes’ A Place to Hide and Other Stories and Alecia McKenzie’s Satellite City and Other Stories3: National CommunitiesFugal voices in Lawrence Scott’s WitchbroomThe journey upriver in Mark McWatt’s Suspended Sentences: Fictions of Atonement4: Global CommunitiesThe diasporic family in Dionne Brand’s At the Full and Change of the MoonMobile readerships in Robert Antoni’s My Grandmother’s Erotic FolktalesConclusionAppendicesI: St Jerome in his StudyII: At the Full and Change of the Moon family treeIII: My Grandmother’s Erotic Folktales front cover imageBibliographyIndex