Caribbean Women Writers Fiction in English
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
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Caribb ean Worn.en Writers Fiction in English Edited by
Mary Conde and
Thorunn Lonsdale
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 978-1-349-27071-2 (eBook) ISBN 978-0-333-63769-2 DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-27071-2 CARIBBEAN WOMEN WRITERS
Selection and editorial matter copyright© 1999 by Mary Conde and Thorunn Lonsdale Introduction copyright© 1999 by Mary Conde Chapter 1 copyright© 1999 by Beryl Gilroy Chapter 2 copyright© 1999 by Velma Pollard Chapter 3 copyright© 1999 by Merle Collins Chapter 4 copyright© 1999 by Vernella Fuller Chapter 5 copyright© 1999 by Thorunn Lonsdale Chapters 6-12 copyright© 1999 by Macmillan Press Ltd All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address: St. Martin's Press, Scholarly and Reference Division, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 First published in the United States of America in 1999 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. ISBN 978-0-312-21863-8 paperback ISBN 978-0-312-21861-4 clothbound
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Caribbean women writers: fiction in English I edited by Mary Conde and Thorunn Lonsdale. p. em. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 978-0-312-21863-8 (pbk.) ISBN 978-0-312-21861-4 (cloth). 1. Caribbean fiction (English)-Women authors-History and criticism. 2. West Indian fiction (English)-Women authors-History and criticism. 3. Women and literature-Caribbean Area-History. 4. Women and literature-West Indies-History. 5. Women-Caribbean Area-Intellectual life. 6. Women-West Indies-Intellectual life. 7. Caribbean Area-In literature. 8. West Indies-In literature. 9. Women in literature. I. Conde, Mary, 1943- . II. Lonsdale, Thorunn, 1958- . PR9205.4.C37 1999 813.009'9287'09729--dc21 98-28418 CIP
For Jasmine and for Arthur
Contents Acknowledgements
ix
Notes on the Contributors
X
1
Introduction Mary Conde Part I
Literary Autobiography
1 Reflections Beryl Gilroy
11
2 The Most Important Reason I Write Velma Pollard
17
3 Writing Fiction, Writing Reality Merle Collins
23
4 The Development of My Art as a Fiction Writer Vernella Fuller
32
Part II
Theoretical and Critical Responses
5 Literary Allusion in the Fiction of Jean Rhys Thorunn Lonsdale
43
6 Perceptions of Place: Geopolitical and Cultural Positioning in Paule Marshall's Novels Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson
75
7 The Body of the Woman in the Body of the Text: the Novels of Erna Brodber Denise deCaires Narain
97
8 The Short Fiction of Olive Senior Alison Donnell
117
9 Pauline Melville's Shape-Shifting Fictions Sarah Lawson Welsh
144
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Contents
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10 Jamaica Kincaid's Writing and the Maternal-Colonial Matrix
Laura Niesen de Abruna
11
The Fiction of Zee Edgell
Adele S. Newson
12 Dionne Brand: Writing the Margins Charlotte Sturgess Part III
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A Guide to Fiction by Caribbean Women Writers
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