Title: Out of the Kumbla : Caribbean women and literature /
Authors: Boyce Davies, Carole.; Savory, Elaine.
Publisher: Africa World Press,
Year: 1990
Subjects: Caribbean literature History and criticism.; Caribbean literature Women authors History and criticism.; Women in literature
Contents: Talking it over : women, writing and feminism / Carole Boyce Davies and Elaine Savory Fido -- Women and literature in the Caribbean / Carole Boyce Davies and Elaine Savory Fido -- Textures of Third World reality in the poetry of four African-Caribbean women / Elaine Savory Fido -- "Le voyage et l'espace clos" -- island and journey as metaphor / Elizabeth Wilson -- Writing home / Carole Boyce Davies -- Tradition and innovation in the writings of Puerto Rican women / Sandra Messinger Cypess -- Interior schisms dramatised / Evelyn O'Callaghan -- A-beng / Lemuel A. Johnson -- Righting the Calabash / Clarisse Zimra -- "Woman is a nation ..." / Carole Boyce Davies -- Women in Jamaican literature 1900-1950 / Rhonda Cobham -- Wives and other victims: women in the novels of Roy A.K. Heath / Mark A. McWatt -- Woman as life or "spirit of place": Wilson Harris's Companions of the day and night / Joyce Stewart -- Victim and accuser: contradictory roles of women in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Cronica de una muerte anunciada / Amparo Marmolejo McWatt -- A womanist vision of the Caribbean / Nancy Morejon -- The absence of writing or How I almost became a spy / Marlene Nourbese Philip.