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2. Caribbean Women Writers: Essays from the First International Conference
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Cudjoe,Selwyn R. (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 1990
- Published:
- Wellesley, Mass.: Calaloux Publications;Amherst : Distributed by the University of Massachusetts Press.
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- First International Conference on the Women Writers of the English-speaking Caribbean, April 1988, 382 p, In 1831, three years before England abolished slavery in the British Caribbean, the narrative of Mary Prince was published in London. It was the first account written by a Caribbean slave to be published. Although narratives and stories of Caribbean women have appeared sporadically in subsequent years, it is only since 1970 that a wave of women's writing has innudated the field, thereby changing the horizons of Caribbean literature.
3. Out of the Kumbla: Caribbean women and literature
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Boyce Davies,Carole (Editor) and Savory, Elaine (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 1990
- Published:
- Trenton NJ: Africa World Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 399 p, "This first collection of critical essays on Caribbean women’s literature created a field of literary criticism which engaged the absence of women writers from the Caribbean literary canon as it established the presence of these writers historically. Using the metaphor of the “Kumbla” or “calabash” used to protect precious objects, first used by writer Erna Brodber, coming “Out of the Kumbla” then signified a movement from confinement to visibility, articulation, process which allowed for a multiplicity of moves, exteriorized, no longer contained and protected or dominated." --Carole Boyce-Davies