Stories from Blue Latitudes by Jennifer Sparrow, Elizabeth Nu... - 9781580051392

Stories from Blue LatitudesCaribbean Women Writers at Home and Abroad\nAuthor(s): Jennifer Sparrow, Elizabeth Nunez, Elizabeth Nunez, Jennifer Sparrow\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Seal Press, United States\nImprint: Seal Press\nISBN-13: 9781580051392, 978-1580051392\nSynopsis\nStories from Blue Latitudes gathers the major and emerging women fiction writers from the Caribbean, including Dionne Brand, Michelle Cliff, Merle Collins, Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, Paule Marshall, and Pauline Melville. Similar themes grace their stories of life at home and abroad. In some, the sexual exploitation of Caribbean girls and women becomes a metaphor for neocolonialism, a biting rejoinder to enticing travel brochures that depict the Caribbean as a tropical playground and encourage Americans to \""make it your own.\"" Other tales deal with the sad legacy of colonial history and the ways in which race, skin colour, and class complicate relationships between men and women, parents and [url] whe.