Duplicates of Stars

Teen & Young Adult

Odom, Katie

Literature & Fiction

Mango Publishing

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

History & Criticism

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. Caribbean Studies. "In this new volume of poems, Maggie Harris continues to examine the ever-evolving relationship between her childhood in Guyana and her adulthood in the UK. The resulting poems are elegant, passionate and flower-strewnworks that stride across timescales and landscapes displaying the selfhood of a poet who carries her child-country on her shoulders. From her home in Kent--itself a region that continues to be shaped by new arrivals, different dialects and, consequently, a mix of folklore--Maggie Harris's writing illuminates the past and the present"--John Rice. Maggie Harris won the Guyana prize for Literature for her first collection, Limbolands in 2000. Her new collection FROM BERBICE TO BROADSTAIRS reaffirms her position as a Caribbean woman poet located firmly in British soil.

From Berbice To Broadstairs

Harris, Maggie

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