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Stories from Blue Latitudes

Caribbean Women Writers at Home and Abroad
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Stories from Blue Latitudes gathers the major and emerging women fiction writers from the Caribbean, including Dionne Brand, Michelle Cliff, Merle Collins, Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, Paule Marshall, and Pauline Melville. Similar themes grace their stories of life at home and abroad. In some, the sexual exploitation of Caribbean girls and women becomes a metaphor for neocolonialism, a biting rejoinder to enticing travel brochures that depict the Caribbean as a tropical playground and encourage Americans to "make it your own. " Other tales deal with the sad legacy of colonial history and the ways in which race, skin color, and class complicate relationships between men and women, parents and children. But whether writing about childhood or adulthood, life in the islands or life abroad, the writers express their particular concerns with a passion that comes from lived experience, and with a love of place and a feminist sensibility that are accessible to new readers of Caribbean literature as well as to an academic audience. "What matters is how well we have told our tale, how well we have drawn pictures of the people and places we write about, " Nunez says. And indeed, this anthology makes those pictures come alive. "

Author Biography:

Elizabeth Nunez immigrated to the United States after completing high school in Trinidad. She is currently a CUNY Distinguished Professor of English at Medgar Evers College, the City University of New York. She is the author of five novels: Grace, Discretion, Bruised Hibiscus, Beyond the Limbo Silence, and When Rocks Dance. Jennifer Sparrow is an assistant professor of English at Medgar Evers College, City University of New York, where she teaches courses in Caribbean literature, postcolonial literature, and composition.
Release date NZ
November 29th, 2005
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Contributors
  • Edited by Elizabeth Nunez
  • Edited by Jennifer Sparrow
Pages
352
Dimensions
142x215x21
ISBN-13
9781580051392
Product ID
3555119

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