Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on the Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Literary Autobiography
  • 1. Reflections
  • 2. The Most Important Reason I Write
  • 3. Writing Fiction, Writing Reality
  • 4. The Development of My Art as a Fiction Writer
  • Part II. Theoretical and Critical Responses
  • 5. Literary Allusion in the Fiction of Jean Rhys
  • 6. Perceptions of Place: Geopolitical and Cultural Positioning in Paule Marshall's Novels
  • 7. The Body of the Woman in the Body of the Text: the Novels of Erna Brodber
  • 8. The Short Fiction of Olive Senior
  • 9. Pauline Melville's Shape-Shifting Fictions
  • 10. Jamaica Kincaid's Writing and the Maternal-Colonial Matrix
  • 11. The Fiction of Zee Edgell
  • 12. Dionne Brand: Writing the Margins
  • Part III. A Guide to Fiction by Caribbean Women Writers
  • A to Z of Authors and Works by Country of Origin
  • Further Reading
  • Index