A collection of essays on Caribbean women's texts that engage issues of collective and individual memory, this volume brings together analyses presenting multiple perspectives from scholars based in British, American, Caribbean, and European universities. Among the texts explored is writing by Erna Brodber, Lorna Goodison, Georgina Herrera, Merle Hodge, Jamaica Kincaid, Michele Lacrosil, Elma Napier, Joan Riley, and Olive Senior. The contributors include Alba Ambert, Aida Bahr, Paulette Brown-Hinds, Mary Condé, Giovanna Covi, Alison Donnell, Maria Cristina Fumagalli, Beryl Gilroy, Sam Haigh, Conrad James, Paula E. Morgan, Denise deCaires Narain, Roshi Naidoo, Evelyn O'Callaghan, Beverley Ormerod, M. Nourbese Philip, Velma Pollard, Sheila Rampersad, and Sarah Lawson Welsh.

Centre of Remembrance: Memory and Caribbean Women's Literature

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

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Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. African American Studies. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Spanish by Jean Andrews. BLACK WOMAN AND OTHER POEMS is Nancy Morejón's single most complete collection of poetry available in English. Morejón is one of Cuba's finest poets. Arranged by the poet herself, this anthology spans more than three decades of work and draws from her most popular and critically acclaimed publications, including Grenada Notebook, Indispensable October, and Places in Time.

Black Woman and other Poems/Mujer Negra y otros poemas

MOREJÓN, NANCY

Poetry

A gentle tale of late unexpected love threatened by racial fears, this novel introduces Doris, who is white, and Robert, who is a Jamaican-born "Windrush" veteran. Both must struggle for what they want. A moving story told with humor and compassion, Perkins weaves a yarn of ageist, racist young people, youthful elders, and a strong interracial relationship.

Roundabouts (Black British series)

Perkins, Thelma

Contemporary

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Spanish by Roberto Marquez. In this collection, Guillen's vision of life as a widespread and diverse menagerie remains as potent today as when it was first published. Guillen's poetry draws on chilling realities and the absurd to fashion a zoo of natural and humanmade wonders alongside a wealth of social and political issues.

The Great Zoo/El Gran Zoo

Guillén, Nicolás

Marquéz, Roberto

A moving tale of contemporary Haiti dogged by a fascinating history and the fragile lives born of it, this novel tells how the lives of four witnesses of military-ruled Haiti during the terror-filled years of the Duvalier regime of the early 1990s intersect. These vivid characters include Léah Ochún, who rises from the sea like a siren one morning off the coast of Cap Haitien, clothes untouched by water, blue stones wrapped around her neck, eyes blind to light; Carmen, soon to be a mother, who returns to Haiti from Canada as if to the call of the vodou; Alexis, who flees the island in search of a land without strife; and Philippe, who walks the northern hills alert to ancestral voices still haunting its peaks and valleys, his gay identity exploited in tourist trade as he struggles to maintain spiritual dignity and a hold on hope, his body decaying from AIDS. This is ultimately a novel about confronting the failings of the human heart and the triumph of memory over despair.

Spirit of Haiti (City Colours series)

Chancy, Myriam J.A.

United States

Afro-Brazilian women find their literary identity in these tension-edged, bilingual narratives. Exploring the rich context of what it means to be a black Brazilian, each piece transforms the cruel day-to-day realities, through the prism of fiction, into stories of hope for a different future. Instruments of political and social change, these narratives invite readers to explore and analyze a lesser-known aspect of the African diaspora and come to understand the universality and specificity of contemporary Brazilian literature by African women.

Women Righting: Afro-Brazilian Women's Short Fiction (City Colours series)

Alvares, Miriam

Lima, Maria Helena

Cultural Writing. Literary Criticism. Afro-Caribbean Studies.

Touching the Body: History, Language, & African Caribbean Women's Writing

Anim-Addo, Joan

Poetry. Afro-Caribbean Studies. Inventive in its deployment of language, form and vision, JANIE CRICKETING LADY traces the journey of an anomalous sportswoman and accompanies her migration from the Caribbean to Britain and her return to her island home, Grenada. The poems explore questions of womanhood in spatial, temporal and sporting contexts. In a powerful tribute to a small island feminist, the poems sing of struggles within and against her assigned role. Anim-Addo's poetry inscribes an all-too-needed herstory. In the process, a fresh and challenging icon is presented, that of the Caribbean woman cricketer: "And how she lashed that red leather, / punching the ball off the offside, / gravitating to her knees to make a sweep / and place the ball sweet between fielders." Joan Anim-Addo was born in Grenada. She is currently Head of the Caribbean Centre and lecturers within the English Department, Goldsmiths, University of London and Chair of the Caribbean Women Writers Alliance (CWWA) and founder-editor of Mango Season, the journal on Caribbean Women's writing.

Janie Cricketing Lady

Poetry. African American Studies. Latino/Latina Studies. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Spanish by Antonio D. Tillis. This volume offers an introductory biographical sketch of Jiménez, a critical assessment of the Spanish version of the text, Caribe Africano en despertar, and an English translation of the poetic work. Within the work, Jiménez's multiple poetic voices interrogate the cultural politics of the Caribbean region, placing special interest on his homeland, the Dominican Republic. In so doing, Jiménez's poetry brings to the surface contemporary questioning of the continual negation of the history of Africa within the region, due to Spanish, Dutch, British, and French colonial rule and subsequent post-colonial legacies. Key themes of the poetry relate to cultural identity, loss of heritage, post-colonial displacement, poverty, and ultimately reclamation of Africa and the rich African heritages replete within Caribbean nations. Here is a poetic work that speaks to the multifaceted socio-historical, political, and cultural circumstances that unite Africa-descendants within the Caribbean region, even as it distinguishes rich cultural heritages unique to particular island nations.

Caribbean African upon Awakening/Caribe Africano en Despertar

Jimenez, Blas

Drama. African Studies. Women's Studies. Opera. This libretto is a rewrite of Aphra Behn's 17th century text Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave. At its center is Imoinda, the hitherto silenced black woman slave in Behn's novel. The child she bears comes to represent the triumphant survival of African-heritage people forcibly transplanted into the diaspora. This opera has been performed in both London and New York and is taught at universities in the United Kingdom, United States, and Italy.

Imoinda: Or She Who Will Lose Her Name: A Play for Twelve Voices in Three Acts

Dramas & Plays

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