Contemporary Caribbean Women's Poetry - 9780415340601

Taylor & Francis

This text provides detailed readings of individual poems by women poets whose work has not yet received the sustained critical attention it deserves. > \nContemporary 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. > 1 Literary mothers? Una Marson and Phyllis Shand Allfrey 2 The lure of the folk: Louise Bennett and the politics of Creole 3 Speaking and performing the Creole word: the work of Valerie Bloom, Jean \g