Caribbean women writers : fiction in English / edited by Mary Condé and Thorunn Lonsdale.

Other author Condé, Mary, 1943-
Other author Lonsdale, Thorunn, 1958-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.
Descriptionx, 233 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects
Caribbean fiction (English)--Women authors. --History and criticism.
West Indian fiction (English)--Women authors. --History and criticism.
Women and literature--Caribbean Area. --History.
Women and literature--West Indies. --History.
Women--Caribbean Area. --Intellectual life.
Women--West Indies. --Intellectual life.
Women in literature.
Caribbean Area--In literature.
West Indies--In literature.

Contents Reflections / Beryl Gilroy -- Most important reason I write / Velma Pollard -- Writing fiction, writing reality / Merle Collins -- 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 -- Body of the woman in the body of the text : the novels of Erna Brodber / Denise deCaires Narain -- 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 -- Fiction of Zee Edgell / Adele S. Newson -- Dionne Brand : writing the margins / Charlotte Sturgess.
Local noteLittle-316440--305131020494W
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 224-227) and index.
LCCN 98028418
ISBN0312218613 (cloth)
ISBN031221863X (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks PR9205.4 .C37 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold