Stories from Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers at Home and Abroad

by Elizabeth Nunez

Book Overview

Stories from Blue Latitudes gathers the major and emerging women fiction writers from the Caribbean, including Dionne Brand, Michelle Cliff, Merle Collins, Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, Paule Marshall, and Pauline Melville.

Similar themes grace their stories of life at home and abroad. In some, the sexual exploitation of Caribbean girls and women becomes a metaphor for neocolonialism, a biting rejoinder to enticing travel brochures...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580051391
• ISBN13: 9781580051392
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Seal Press (CA)
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.2"