Contemporary Caribbean Women's Poetry
Subtitle: Making Style (Postcolonial Literatures)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 7, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780415340601
Subjects: Poetry & poets; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; Latin America; Caribbean & Latin American; Literary Criticism & Collections / Central & South American
First sentence: Beginning this account of contemporary Caribbean women poets with a discussion of the work of Una Marson (1905-65) and Phyllis Shand Allfrey (1908-86) inevitably accords them foundational status as literary 'mother-figures'.