Caribbean Women Writers (eBook, PDF)

Fiction in English
Redaktion: Condé, Mary; Lonsdale, Thorunn

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 233
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781349270712
• Artikelnr.: 45967205

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

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