Beyond the canebrakes : Caribbean women writers in Canada

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Label

Beyond the canebrakes : Caribbean women writers in Canada

Title remainder

Caribbean women writers in Canada

Statement of responsibility

edited by Emily Allen Williams

Contributor

• Williams, Emily Allen

Subject

• Canadian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• Canadian literature -- Caribbean authors | History and criticism
• Canadian literature -- Women authors | History and criticism
• Caribbean Area -- In literature
• Culture in literature
• Ethnicity in literature
• Group identity in literature
• Minority women in literature
• West Indies -- In literature

Language

eng

Summary

"Beyond the Canebrakes: Caribbean Women Writers in Canada is a text of fifteen essays and two interviews that examine the work of West Indian women writers living in Canada. The essays examine the work of literary artists--Claire Harris, Olive Senior, Lillian Allen, Afua Cooper, Dionne Brand, M. Nourbese Philip, Nalo Hopkinson, Pamela Mordecai, and Makeda Silvera-- as an integral not marginal element of the Canadian and world literature canons. The authors of these essays and interviews dissect issues of history, gender, power, identity, and levels of discourse in moving scholars, researchers, and students into arenas of more vigorous study and critique of the West Indian woman writer in Canada. These essays further examine how these women writers' literary works reflect their foundations as Caribbean-born while illustrating their movement "beyond the canebrakes"--Caribbean homeland-- in a reflection and synthesis of their birth-home/heritage with diasporic-home."--Publisher's website

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

810.9/9287

Index

index present

LC call number

PR9188.2.C37

LC item number

B49 2008

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography