The Caribbean Short Story Critical Perspectives

Offering a range of insightful and thought-provoking critical perspectivesfrom publishing history to genre narrative to socio-political contextsthis comprehensive study of Caribbean short stories across the 20th century details the integral role the form has played in the region's literary traditions and cultural production. Including single author studies as well as more wide-ranging explorations of particular periods and locales, this collection of 25 essays provides insight into a broad selection of short fiction from across the Caribbean's linguistic zones. The essays in this resource are complemented by an extensive literary and critical bibliography and a detailed, accessible introduction.

Lucy Evans teaches undergraduate literature at the University of Leeds. Mark McWatt is a professor of West Indian literature at the University of the West Indies–Cave Hill and the coeditor of The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse. Emma Smith lectures in postcolonial and 20th-century literature at Leeds and Leeds Metropolitan universities.