Free Enterprise

In 1858, two black women meet to plot a revolution. Mary Ellen, already a frontier legend, owns a string of hotels that cater to wealthy Whites and secretly double as havens for runaway slaves. Her comrade is a Jamaican who has given up her life of privilege to fight for the abolitionist cause.

Literature & Fiction

Michelle Cliff

Contemporary

Penguin Books, Ltd.

No Telephone in Heaven

Methuen - Minerva

In this tale of identity and nation-hood Cliff evokes a Jamaica full of contradiction and complexity, a country where history and politics are played out in surroundings of overwhelming physical beauty. Slowly the Jamaican diaspora is revealed through the novel's main character, Clare Savage, whose family emigrates to the US when she is twelve... Clare's emotional and physical journey back to Jamaica and a positive , identification of herself as Jamaican -takes the form of a fascinating voyage through the polarities and dualities of race and sexuality, the relationships between the first and third worlds and a slavery and modern patterns of emigration. Cliff powerfully evokes the historical myths and truths of Jamaican and Black Americans, and the beauty and anguish of Modern anguish of modern Jamaica. City Limits Michelle Cliff is a remarkable author Guardian. Vividly and passionately written Financial Times. Potent and very moving Sunday Times

No Telephone To Heaven

Minerva / Mandarin Paperbacks

A collection of short stories by the author of "No Telephone to Heaven". They deal with oppression, liberation, prejudice and compassion. Many of the characters and incidents are linked, yet each story catalogues a separate incident from the darker side of America's history.

Bodies of Water

Minerva

Eighteen women, including Jamaica Kincaid, Rigoberta Menchú, Cherríe Moraga, Marjorie Agosin, Margaret Randall, Gloria Anzaldúa, Michelle Cliff, Edwidge Danticat, and Julia Alvarez, are featured in this powerful anthology on art, feminism, and activism in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Women Writing Resistance highlights Latin American and Caribbean women writers who, with increasing urgency, are writing in the service of social justice and against the entrenched patriarchal, racist, and exploitative regimes that have ruled their countries.
Many of the women in this collection have been thrust out into the Latino-Caribbean diaspora by violent forces that make differences in language and culture seem less significant than connections based on resistance to inequality and oppression. It is these connections that Women Writing Resistance highlights, presenting "conversations" on the potential of writing to confront injustice.
This mixed-genre anthology, a resource for activists and readers of Latin American and Caribbean women’s literature, demonstrates and enacts how women can collaborate across class, race and nationality, and illustrates the value of this solidarity in the ongoing struggles for human rights and social justice in the Americas.
Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez earned her Ph.D. in comparative literature from New York University, specializing in contemporary Caribbean, Latin American, and ethnic North American autobiographies by women. She teaches literature and gender studies courses at Simon’s Rock College of Bard, and is also a faculty member at the University at Albany, SUNY.

Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean

JULIA ALVAREZ

Cherríe Moraga

Rosario Castellanos

Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez

EDWIDGE DANTICAT

Raquel Partnoy

Ruth Behar

History & Criticism

South End Press

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