Stories from blue latitudes : Caribbean women writers at home and abroad

Nunez, Elizabeth. (Added Author). Sparrow, Jennifer. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 1580051391
Physical Description: 336 p. ; 21 cm.
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Publisher: Emeryville, CA : Seal Press ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2006.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

"Just riffing" (a poem) / Esther Phillips -- Introduction -- "In a window" an excerpt from the novel At the Full and Change of the Moon / Dionne Brand -- "Sleeping's beauty and the Prince Charming" / Erna Brodber -- "Boat man" / Margaret Cezair-Thompson -- "Transactions" / Michelle Cliff -- "Shadowboxing" / Merle Collins -- "Tatiana, mon amour" / Edwidge Danticat -- "The entertainment" / Zee Edgell -- "In the minor key" an excerpt from the novel The Swinging Bridge / Ramabai Espinet -- "Mother's collection" / Donna Hemans -- "Limbo island" / Merle Hodge -- "Shift" / Nalo Hopkinson -- "Baywatch an' de preacher" an excerpt from the novel Tide Running / Oonya Kempadoo -- "Columbus in chains" an excerpt from the novel Annie John / Jamaica Kincaid -- "Sugar" / Sharon Leach -- "Hortense" an excerpt from the novel Small Island / Andrea Levy -- "To Da-duh, in memoriam" / Paule Marshall -- "Firstborn" / Alecia McKenzie -- "Salt" an excerpt from the novel Dragons Cry / Tessa McWatt -- g "The parrot and Descartes" / Pauline Melville -- "Blood" / Pamela Mordecai -- "Zuela" an excerpt from the novel Bruised Hibiscus / Elizabeth Nunez -- "Stop frame" / M. NourbeSe Philip -- "SMILE (God loves you)" / Velma Pollard -- g "The good life" / Patricia Powell -- "The pain tree" / Olive Senior -- "Volcano" / Yvonne Weekes.