Island women visionaries: how women writers are enhancing the Caribbean literary canon.

From: Black Issues Book Review | Date: May 1, 2007| Author: Reynolds, Clarence V. | Copyright information

TIMES HAVE CERTAINLY CHANGED IN THE YEARS SINCE ISLAND Voices: Stories From the West Indies--with its all-male roster--was published in 1970. Today, with the inventive works of both established and emerging writers enhancing the august history of Caribbean literature, contemporary women writers are important contributors to that rich collective and they are becoming the dominant voices on the Caribbean literary scene. You can sample them in the short-story collection Stories From B...

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