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Caribbean women writers

Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Philadelphia : Chelsea House, 1997.
Series: Women writers of English and their works.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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The past few decades have seen an explosion of writing by women from the Caribbean. From Antigua, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Trinidad - women of African, European, and mixed ancestry have explored and manipulated their complex matrix: of languages and subtle linguistic codes; of folk traditions and formal English schooling; of vital politics and tormented histories; of intoxicating natural
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Genre/Form: Dictionaries
Biography Dictionaries
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Caribbean women writers.
Philadelphia : Chelsea House, 1997
(OCoLC)645857828
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Harold Bloom
ISBN: 0791044769 9780791044766 0791044920 9780791044926
OCLC Number: 36307946
Description: xviii, 163 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Phyllis Shand Allfrey --
Erna Brodber --
Michelle Cliff --
Merle Collins --
Edwidge Danticat --
Zee Edgell --
Beryl Gilroy --
Merle Hodge --
Jamaica Kincaid --
Paule Marshall --
Jean Rhys --
Olive Senior.
Series Title: Women writers of English and their works.
Responsibility: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Abstract:

The past few decades have seen an explosion of writing by women from the Caribbean. From Antigua, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Trinidad - women of African, European, and mixed ancestry have explored and manipulated their complex matrix: of languages and subtle linguistic codes; of folk traditions and formal English schooling; of vital politics and tormented histories; of intoxicating natural beauty and devastating poverty. They have written of mothertongues and motherlands, of exile, of the boundaries of bodies, of the politics of owning and not owning themselves.

Though worlds apart, writings as diverse as Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, published in 1966, and Jamaica Kincaid's Autobiography of My Mother, published 30 years later, nevertheless share a setting of shocking yet sinister beauty; a sense of the loss of a mother and the implications of this loss upon one's self; and a deeply resonant literary heritage. From Guyana's Beryl Gilroy to Haiti's Edwidge Danticat, Caribbean women are mingling the political with the lyrical in a quickly deepening new body of literature.

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