Border Crossings: A Trilingual Anthology of Caribbean Women Writers
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Border Crossings: A Trilingual Anthology of Caribbean Women Writers
Border Crossings: A Trilingual Anthology of Caribbean Women Writers

Border Crossings: A Trilingual Anthology of Caribbean Women Writers

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Nicole Roberts (Contributor) Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw (Contributor)  

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Literature has no geographical border and can so easily relocate and migrate into our literary imagination. The only real difficulty facing such crossings is the ever-present language barriers that have for too long limited the ways in which the Caribbean is read, perceived and interpreted. What is distinctive about Border Crossings: A Trilingual Anthology of Caribbean Women Writers is its trilingual nature; all of the stories appear in English, French and Spanish. To date, no anthology of short stories from the Caribbean region has accomplished this.The anthology includes stories from Guadeloupe (Gisele Pineau), Trinidad ( Shani Mootoo), Haiti (Yanick Lahens), Jamaica (Oliver Senior), Puerto Rico (Carmen Lugo Filippi ) and Cuba (Mirta Yanez). Many stories in the collection do not offer the reader a comforting end. Instead, they suggest the possibilities and the complexities of depicting a Caribbean, not singular but plural, not closed but open-ended and decidedly one without borders.
Nicole Roberts is Senior Lecturer, Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw is Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Literatures, Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.
  • Contributor: Nicole Roberts
  • Imprint: University of the West Indies Press
  • ISBN13: 9789766402518
  • Number of Pages: 292
  • Packaged Weight: 456
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
  • Release Date: 2011-08-30
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Nicole Roberts is Senior Lecturer, Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw is Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Literatures, Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.

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