Caribbean Women Writers: Fiction in English

by Mary Condé (Editor), Thorunn Lonsdale (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312218638
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	12/07/1998
Edition description:	1999
Pages:	233
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

LAURA NIESEN DE ABRUNA Ithaca College MERLE COLLINS Writer ALISON DONNELL Nottingham Trent University VERNELLA FULLER Writer BERYL GILROY Writer HEIDI SLETTEDAHL Central Lancashire University DENISE DECAIRES NARAIN University of Sussex ADELE S. NEWSON Florida International University VELMA POLLARD Writer CHARLOTTE STURGESS University of Tours SARAH LAWSON WELSH University College of Ripon and York

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

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

From the Publisher

This collection combines critical appraisals of Caribbean women fiction-writers--Jean Rhys, Paule Marshall, Erna Brodber, Olive Senior, Pauline Melville, Jamaica Kincaid, Zee Edgell, and Dionne Brand--with "why I write" essays from four other writers--Beryl Gilroy, Merle Collins, Vernella Fuller, and Velma Pollard. A sampling of topics: literary allusion in the fiction of Jean Rhys, geopolitical and cultural positioning in Paule Marshall's novels, and Jamaica Kincaid's writing and the maternal-colonial matrix. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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