African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
145 p, Establishes connections between the themes and methodologies of writers within the South Asian Diaspora in the New World, and serves both serious analysts as well as beginning readers of South Asian fiction. (Barnes & Nobles)
London; Concord, MA, USA: Whiting and Birch, Paul and Co., Publishers’ Consortium
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
260 p, Contents: Framing the word: Caribbean women’s writing / Merle Collins -- En-gendering spaces: the poetry of Marlene Nourbese Philip and Pamela Mordecai / Elaine Savory -- Writing for resistance: nationalism and narratives of liberation / Alison Donnell -- Jamaica Kincaid’s prismatic self and the decolonisation of language and thought / Giovanna Covi -- Figures of silence and orality in the poetry of M. Nourbese Philip / David Marriott -- Saint Lucien Lawòz and Lamagwit songs within the Caribbean and African tradition / Morgan Dalphinis -- Keeping tradition alive / Jean Buffong -- New encounters: availability, acceptability and accessibility of new literature from Caribbean women / Susanna Steele and Joan Anim-Addo in conversation -- Children should be seen and spoken to: or writing for and about children / Thelma Perkins -- ’A world of Caribbean romance’: reformulating the legend of love or ’can a caress be culturally specific?’ / Jane Bryce -- Houses and homes: Elizabeth Jolley’s Mr Scobie’s riddle and Beryl Gilroy’s Frangipani house / Mary Condé -- Women writers in twentieth century Cuba: an eight-point survey / Catherine Davies -- Patterns of resistance in Afro-Cuban women’s writing: Nancy Morejón’s ’Amo a mi amo’ / Conrad James -- Encoding the voice: Caribbean women’s writing and Creole / Susanne Mühleisen -- Surinam women writers and issues of translation / Petronella Breinburg -- Frangipani house / Beryl Gilroy -- ’One of the most beautiful islands in the world and one of the unluckiest’: Jean Rhys and Dominican national identity / Thorunn Lonsdale -- Audacity and outcome: writing African-Caribbean womanhood / Joan Anim-Addo -- Coming out of repression: Lakshmi Persaud’s Butterfly in the wind / Kenneth Ramchand.;
