Caribbean Women Writers Fiction in English

This diverse and challenging collection of critical appraisals of Caribbean women fiction writers meets the urgent need for detailed critical analysis in this rapidly expanding field of interest. It includes an extensive bibliography both of relevant criticism and of Caribbean women writers and their fiction list by area.

Mary CondT is Lecturer in English and Thorunn Lonsdale is a Ph.D. candidate, both at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.

Part I: Literary Autobiography * 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 * Part II: Theoretical and Critical Responses * Literary Allusion in the Fiction of Jean Rhys--Thorunn Lonsdale * Perceptions of Place: Geopolitical and Cultural Positioning in Pule 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 * Part III: A Guide to Fiction by Caribbean Women Writers * Index
Part I: Literary Autobiography * 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 * Part II: Theoretical and Critical Responses * Literary Allusion in the Fiction of Jean Rhys--Thorunn Lonsdale * Perceptions of Place: Geopolitical and Cultural Positioning in Pule 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 * Part III: A Guide to Fiction by Caribbean Women Writers * Index