ABSTRACT

Contemporary Caribbean Women's Poetry provides detailed readings of individual poems by women poets whose work has not yet received the sustained critical attention it deserves. These readings are contextualized both within Caribbean cultural debates and postcolonial and feminist critical discourses in a lively and engaged way; revisiting nationalist debates as well as topical issues about the performance of gendered and raced identities within poetic discourse. Newly available in paperback, this book is groundbreaking reading for all those interested in postcolonialism, Gender Studies, Caribbean Studies and contemporary poetry.

chapter 1|50 pages

Literary mothers?

Una Marson and Phyllis Shand Allfrey

chapter 2|38 pages

The lure of the folk

Louise Bennett and the politics of Creole

chapter |54 pages

Folkways and fakeways

chapter |6 pages

Nobody go f . . . with my poetry again

chapter |26 pages

Lorna Goodison: delivering the word

chapter 5|36 pages

Playing the field

Anthologizing, canonizing and problematizing Caribbean women’s writing