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The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories: Reissue (Oxford Books of Prose) (1999)

by Stewart Brown (Editor), John Wickham (Editor)

Other authors: Michael Anthony (Contributor), Robert Antoni (Contributor), Reinaldo Arenas (Contributor), Juan Bosch (Contributor), Kamau Brathwaite (Contributor) — 48 more, Jean Binta Breeze (Contributor), Jan Carew (Contributor), Alejo Carpentier (Contributor), Patrick Chamoiseau (Contributor), Willi Chen (Contributor), Austin Clarke (Contributor), Merle Collins (Contributor), Frank Collymore (Contributor), Frank Collymore (Contributor), Maryse Conde (Contributor), Edwidge Danticat (Contributor), Rene Depestre (Contributor), Thea Doelwijt (Contributor), Zoila Ellis (Contributor), Rosario Ferre (Contributor), Roy Heath (Contributor), Clyde Hosein (Contributor), G. Cabrera Infante (Contributor), C.L.R. James (Contributor), Ismith Khan (Contributor), Jamaica Kincaid (Contributor), Earl Lovelace (Contributor), Roger Mais (Contributor), EA Markham (Contributor), Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Contributor), Paule Marshall (Contributor), Alecia Mckenzie (Contributor), Pauline Melville (Contributor), Alfred Mendes (Contributor), VS Naipaul (Contributor), Sasenarine Persaud (Contributor), Geoffrey Philp (Contributor), Velma Pollard (Contributor), Jean Rhys (Contributor), Astrid Roemer (Contributor), Antonio Benitez Rojo (Contributor), Andrew Salkey (Contributor), Edgardo Sanabria Santaliz (Contributor), Lawrence Scott (Contributor), Lionel Seepaul (Contributor), Sam Selvon (Contributor), Olive Senior (Contributor), Makeda Silvera (Contributor), John Stewart (Contributor), Ana Lydia Vega (Contributor), Eric Walrond (Contributor), Myriam Warner-Vieyra (Contributor), John Wickham (Contributor)

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The Caribbean is the source of one of the richest, most accessible, and yet technically adventurous traditions of contemporary world literature. This collection of Caribbean short stories is pan-Caribbean, including stories from the four main languages of the region: English, Spanish, French,and Dutch. Stories by major figures in the English language tradition such as V. S. Naipaul, Sam Sevlon, and Jean Rhys are set alongside their Spanish- and French-speaking contemporaries like Alejo Carpentier, Jan Bosh, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Their work, in all its diversity of style, theme,and linguistic energy, provides a context for the work of an exciting new generation of Caribbean writers like Edwidge Danticat, Robert Antoni, Astrid Roemer, and Jamaica Kincaid.A celebration of regional creativity, the collection contains sufficient surprises to keep even the most avid student of West Indian writing turning the pages, while reminding readers that the Caribbean is a multilingual, multicultural space.… (more)

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813.01089729Literature › English (North America) › American fiction › By type › Short fiction › By Region › Central America

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PR9205.O94Language and Literature › English › English Literature › English literature: Provincial, local, etc.

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