Description |
xxiii, 399 p. ; 23 cm. |
Bibliography |
Selected bibliography of criticism and related works / J.R. Carnegie: p. 373-394. |
Contents |
Talking it over: Women, writing and feminism ; Women and literature in the Caribbean: An overview / Carole Boyce Davies and Elaine Savory Fido -- Textures of third world reality in the poetry of four African-Caribbean women / Elaine Savory Fido -- "Le voyage et l'espace clos" - Island and journey as metaphor: aspects of woman's experience in the works of Francophone Caribbean women novelists / Elizabeth Wilson --Writing home: gender and heritage in the works of Afro-Caribbean/American women writers / Carole Boyce Davies -- Tradition and innovation in the writings of Puerto Rican women / Sandra Messinger Cypess -- Interior schisms dramatised: the treatment of the "Mad" woman in the work of some female Caribbean novelists / Evelyn O'Callaghan -- A-beng: (Re)calling the body in(to) question / Lenuel A. Johnson -- Righting the Calabash: writing history in the female Francophone narrative / Clarisse Zimra. |
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(cont.) "Women is a nation ..."; women in Caribbean oral literature / Carole Boyce Davies -- Women in Jamaican literature 1900-1950 / Rhonda Cobhan -- Wives and other victims: women in the novels of Roy A. K. Heath / Mark A. McWatt -- Woman as life or "spirit of place". Wilson Harris's Companions of the day and night / Joyce Stewart -- Victim and accuser: contradictory roles of women in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Cronica de una muerte anunciada / Amparo Marmolejo McWatt -- A Womanist vision of the Caribbean; an interview / Nancy Morejon (with Elaine Savory Fido) --The Absence of writing or how I almost became a spy / Marlene Nourbese Philip -- Afro-Jamaican folk elements in Brodber's Jane and Louisa will soon come home / Carolyn Cooper -- This Gift of metaphor; Symbolic strategies and the triumph of survival in Simone Schwartz-Bart's The Bridge of beyond / Abena P. A. Busia -- Developing diaspora literacy: allusion in Maryse Conde's Heremakhonon / Veve A. Clark. |
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(cont.) The Narrow enclosure of motherdom/martyrdom: a study of Gatha Randall Barton in Sylvia Wynter's The Hills of Hebron / Janice Lee Liddell -- Finding a way to tell it: methodology and commitment in theatre about women in Barbados and Jamaica / Elaine Savory Fido -- Jamaica Kincaid and the resistance to canons / Giovanna Covi -- Afterword: "Beyond Miranda's meanings : Un/silencing the 'Demonic ground' of Caliban's 'Woman'" / Sylvia Wynter -- Selected bibliography of criticism and related works / Jeniphier R. Carnegie. |
Subject |
Caribbean literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Caribbean literature -- History and criticism.
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Women in literature.
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Added Author |
Davies, Carole Boyce.
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Fido, Elaine Savory.
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ISBN |
0865430438 (pbk.) |
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086543042X |
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