Stories from Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers At Home and Abroad
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- Synopsis
- STORIES FROM BLUE LATITUDES gathers the work of twenty-six major and emerging women fiction writers from the Caribbean. The stories are at once poignant and shocking, and shed light on a part of the world that is too often misrepresented. They deal with the sad legacy of colonialism and the ways in which race, skin color, and class complicate relationships between men and women and between parents and children. In some stories, the sexual exploitation of Caribbean girls and women becomes a metaphor for neocolonial exploitation, a biting rejoinder to enticing travel brochures that depict the Caribbean as a tropical playground for tourists. But whether writing about childhood or adulthood, about life on the islands or life abroad, these extraordinary writers express their concerns, both universal and specific, with a vibrancy that comes from lived experience and a love of a place they will always call home.
- Copyright:
- 2006
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 343 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781580051392
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 07/16/07
- Copyrighted By:
- Elizabeth Nunez
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Travel, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Donna Smith
- Proofread By:
- Amber W
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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