Afro-Caribbean literary studies
and female imagination
and prose by women
Black women's storytelling traditions
Caribbean feminist literature
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colonial legacy in contemporary writing
community and kinship in narrative
comparative Black Atlantic studies
cross-cultural dialogue among women authors
cultural hybridity in Caribbean texts
decolonizing literary criticism
diaspora and identity narratives
education and empowerment through literature
emerging voices in late twentieth-century literature
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exile and belonging
feminist literary movements in the Global South
folklore
gender and postcolonial writing
historical memory and generational voice
intersection of race and gender in literature
island history through personal narrative
landscape and place in island writing
language and creole expression in literature
literary activism and social change
literary heritage of the West Indies
memory and migration themes
motherhood and matriarchy in fiction
myth
narrative strategies of resistance
oral tradition and written expression
performance
poetry
political consciousness in women's narratives
redefining tradition through women's perspectives
regional identity and global readership
resistance and self-definition in women's writing
scholarship on Caribbean gender studies
sexuality and womanhood in Caribbean contexts
spirituality and ritual in women's texts
storytelling as cultural survival
transnational Caribbean authors
women's voices in island cultures
Product details
- ISBN 9780870237324
- Weight: 603g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 09 Nov 1990
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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. In April 1988, at the first conference of its kind, some 50 Caribbean women writers and critics gathered at Wellesley College to discuss their common enterprise. The essays in this volume, based on presentations at that conference, represent the first systematic attempt by these writers to talk about their experiences in practicing their craft. The pieces tell us what has impelled the women to write, what has given them the courage to call themselves writers and what they have chosen to write about and why. In some cases, excerpts from writings are included. The essays are supplemented by the observations of social and literary critics, who place the pieces in historical context.
