Part III A Guide to Fiction by Women Writers A to Z of Authors and Works by Country of Origin

Antigua Jamaica Kincaid Annie John (1983) At the Bottom of the River (stories) (1983) A Small Place (essay) (1988) Lucy (1990) The Autobiography of My Mother (1996)

Barbados June Henfrey Coming home and other stories (1994) Paule Marshall Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959) The Chosen Place, The Timeless People (1968) Merle: a novella and other stories (1983) Praisesong for the Widow (1983) Daughters (1991) Hazelle Palmer Tales from the Gardens and Beyond (1995)

Belize Zee Edgell Beka Lamb (1982) In Times Like These (1991) The Festival of San joaquin (1997)

Carriacou Audre Lorde Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982)

Cuba Cristina Garcia Dreaming in Cuban (1992)

Dominica Phyllis Shand Allfrey The Orchid House (1953)

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Jean Rhys The Left Bank and Other Stories (1927) Quartet (1928) (first published as Postures) After Leaving Mr Mackenzie (1930) Voyage in the Dark (1934) Good Morning, Midnight (1939) Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) Tigers Are Better-Looking (1968) Sleep It Off Lady (1976) Tales of the Wide Caribbean: a New Collection of Short Stories (1985)

Grenada Jean Buffong Under the Silk Cotton Tree (1992) Snowflakes in the Sun (1996) Merle Collins Angel (1987) Rain Darling (stories) (1990) The Colour of Forgetting (1995) Nellie Payne and Jean Buffong Jump-Up-and-Kiss-Me: Two stories from Grenada (1990)

Guyana Joan Cambridge Clarise Cumberbatch Want to Go Home (1987) Norma De Haarte Guyana Betrayal (1991) Black Teacher (autobiography) (1976) Frangipani House (1986) Boy-Sandwich (1989) Stedman and Joanna -A Love in Bondage (1991) Sunlight on Sweet Water (autobiography) (1994) Gather the Faces (1996) In Praise of Love and Children (1996) Inkle and Yarico (1996) Denise Harris Web of Secrets (1996) Meiling Jin Song of the Boatwoman (1996) Pauline Melville Shape-shifter (1990) The Ventriloquist's Tale (1997) The Migration of Ghosts (stories) (1998) Grace Nichols Whole of a Morning Sky (1986) Narmala Shewcharan Tomorrow Is Another Day (1994) A Guide to Fiction 221

Jan Shinebourne Timepiece (1986) The Last English Plantation (1988)

Haiti Edwidge Danticat Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994) Krik? Krak! (stories) (1996)

Jamaica Opal Palmer Adisa Bake-Face and Other Guava Stories (1986) It Begins With Tears (1997) Erna Brodber jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home (1980) Myal (1988) Louisiana (1994) Hazel D. Campbell The Rag Doll, and other stories (1978) Woman's Tongue: stories (1985) Singerman (stories) (1992) Michelle Cliff Abeng (1984) No Telephone to Heaven (1987) Bodies of Water (stories) (1990) Free Enterprise (1993) Judith Woolcock Colombo The Fablesinger (1989) Christine Craig Mint Tea and other stories (1993) Vernella Fuller Going Back Home (1992) Unlike Normal Women (1995) Lorna Goodison Baby Mother and the King of Swords (stories) (1990) Jean Goulbourne Excavation (1997) Every Light in the House Burnin' (1994) Never Far from Nowhere (1996) Alecia McKenzie Satellite City and other stories (1992) Dianne Maguire Dry Land Tourist and other stories (1991) Velma Pollard Considering Women (stories) (1989) Homestretch (1994) Karl and other stories (1994) 222 Caribbean Women Writers

Patricia Powell Me Dying Trial (1993) A Small Gathering of Bones (1994) Joan Riley The Unbelonging (1985) Waiting in the Twilight (1987) Romance (1988) A Kindness to the Children (1992) Sybil Seaforth Growing Up with Miss Milly (1988) Summer Lightning and other stories (1986) Arrival of the Snake-Woman and other stories (1989) Discerner of Hearts and other stories (1995) Makeda Silvera Remembering G and other stories (1991) Her Head A Village (stories) (1994) Vanessa Spence The Roads Are Down (1993) Elean Thomas The Last Room (1991) Jeanne Wilson Model for Murder (1993)

Puerto Rico Esmeralda Santiago America's Dream (1996)

Tobago Marlene Nourbese Philip Harriet's Daughter (1988)

Trinidad Valerie Belgrave Ti Marie (1988) Dionne Brand Sans Souci and other stories (1988) In Another Place, Not Here (1996) Brenda Flanagan You Alone Are Dancing (1990) Rosa Guy A Measure of Time (1983) Claire Harris Drawing Down a Daughter (1992) Merle Hodge Crick Crack, Monkey (1970) For the Life of Laetitia (1993) A Guide to Fiction 223

Amryl Johnson Sequins for a Ragged Hem (travel book) (1988) Marina Ama Omowale Maxwell Chopstix in Mauby: A Novel of Magical Realism (1996) Elizabeth Nunez When Rocks Dance (1986) Bruised Hibiscus (1994) Lakshmi Persaud Butterfly in the Wind (1990) Sastra (1993) Further Reading

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Abruna, Laura Niesen de, 4, 71 'Photograph', 4, 205-6, 208 n.73 Sans Souci, 5, 203 Africa/African, 1, 14, 27, 83-5, Brathwaite, Edward Kamau, 43, 100, 147, 164, 186, 188, 212 100, 102, 113, 162, 164 African-American, 1, 75, 78, 83, Brathwaite, Ted, 14 86, 88, 91 Choice of Straws, 14 African-Caribbean, 178 Paid Servant, 14 Afro-Guyanese, 1 To Sir with Love, 14 Allfrey, Phyllis Shand, 56 Breeze, Jean Binta, 65 The Orchid House, 56-7 'Red Rebel Song', 65 Amerindian, 145, 163-4 Britain/British, 1, 3, 12-15, 25-6, America, see United States of 30, 33-5, 37, 40, 147, 149, 153, Angelou, Maya, 189 156-7, 166, 168 n.58, 178-80, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 185, 189, 194 189 British Guiana, 1, 13-14 Angier, Carole, 50 British Honduras, see Belize Antigua, 2, 172, 175, 177-80 Brodber, Erna, 3-4, 97-116, 123, Ashcroft, WD., 99 145, 163 Atwood, Margaret, 164 'Fiction in the Scientific Surfacing, 164 Procedure', 100 Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Bajan, 77-8 Home 2, 97, 101-7, 109-111, Barbados/Barbadian, 1-2, 76-8, 92 128 Barred, see Sous les verrous Louisiana, 97, 101, 110-14 Barrow, Errol, 1 Myal, 3, 97, 107-11 Basket of Flowers, The, 19 Bromley, Roger, 186 Belgrave, Valerie, 1 Bronte, Charlotte, 44, 59 Ti Marie, 1 Jane Eyre, 44, 59, 63 Belize, 184-8, 190, 192-9 Buffong, Jean, 3 Bennett, Arnold, 50-1, 53 Under the Silk Cotton Tree, 3 The Old Wives' Tale, 50-3 Byron, George Gordon, 6th Lord, Berg, Leila, 16 14, 44 Berry, James, 152 'On an Afternoon Train from Callaloo, 115 n.27, 180 Victoria to Purley, 1955', 152 Cambridge, Joan, 1-2 Birch, Eva Lennox, 86 Clarise Cumberbatch Want to Go Bishop, Maurice, 23 Home, 1-2 Brand, Dionne, 1, 2, 4, 5, 43, 99, Campbell, Elaine, 56 202-16 Canada/Canadian, 1-3, 5, 118, In Another Place Not Here, 5 202, 214 'No rinsed blue sky, no red Canetti, Elias, 144 flower fences', 203 Caribbean, 1-5, 20, 24, 26, 28, 30,

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34-6, 43-5, 55-6, 59, 61, 63, 165, 184-5, 188, 192, 194-5 66, 75-6, 78-80, 83-6, 88, 89, Cudjoe, Selwyn, 180 91-2, 97, 99, 101, 104, 112, 118-19, 121, 124, 126, 131-2, Daily Gleaner, 184 135, 139, 147, 150-3, 155, Dash, Michael, 167 n.28 164-6, 168 n.58, 172-4, 185, Davies, Carole Boyce, 2, 83, 131 190, 196, 198, 203-5, 208, 214, DeHaarte, Norma, 1 215 n.S De Quincey, Thomas, 57 Caribs, 72 n.91, 172, 188 Confessions of an English Opium Carriacou, 1, 2, 84-5 Eater, 57 Central America, 184 diaspora, 35, 78, 84, 114, 126, 128, Chaucer, Geoffrey, 46-7 153, 156, 160, 203 Chawaf, Chatal, 100 Dickinson, Emily, 58 Chinese, 1, 195 /Dominican, 2, 45, 48, Chodorow, Nancy, 179 56, 63, 172 Christian, Barbara, 78, 80, 84 Dominican Republic, 87 Cliff, Michelle, 3, 43 Donnell, Alison, 4 Abeng, 3 Down, Lorna 189, 190 Free Enterprise, 3 Dujardin, Edouard, 48, 68 n.31, Cobham, Rhonda, 174 69 n.34 n.35 Les lauriers sont Watchers & Seekers: Creative coupes (The Bays Are Sere), 48, Writing by Black Women, 174 69 n.35 Collins, Merle, 2, 4 Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 13 Angel, 25-6, 28 Dunning, R. C., 49 'Butterfly Born', 29 The Colour of Forgetting, 2 Edgell, Zelma (Zee) Inez Tucker, 'Gran', 4 4, 184-201 'The Ladies are Upstairs', 29 Beka Lamb, 4, 184-93, 197, 199 'Nabel String', 29 The Festival of San Joaquin, 199 Rain Darling, 29 In Times Like These, 184, 186-7, 'A Song of Pain', 29 193-9 'The Walk', 29 Elrington, Wilfred, 184 coloniaVcolonialism, 5, 12-15, England/English, 1, 15, 33, 35, 37, 23-7, 36, 43, 45-6, 56-7, 63, 44, 47, 58-9, 87, 60-4, 128, 75, 79, 87-8, 99, 100, 102, 147, 152-5, 165, 173, 176, 107-8, 117-18, 121-4, 126, 179-80, 191, 198, 208, 213 128-9, 131-2, 135-7, 140, 153, Europe/European, 35, 44, 55-6, 157, 167 n.28, 174, 180, 66, 136, 147, 152, 165, 167 189-91, 194, 203, 208, 211 n.24, n.28, 188, 203 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, 118 Conde, Mary, 168 n.57 n.58 Fido, Elaine Savory, 131 'McGregor as Orpheus: Pauline Flanagan, Brenda, 2 Melville's "McGregor's You Alone Are Dancing, 2 Journey'", 168 n.57 n.58 Ford, Ford Madox, 47-50, 69 n.35 Conrad, Joseph, 54, 153 When the Wicked Man, 49 A/mayer's Folly, 54-5 Fuller, Vernella, 2, 4 Heart of Darkness, 153 Going Back Home, 2, 32-7, 39-40 Cooper, Carolyn, 104, 110 Unlike Normal Women, 35-9 Creole, 20, 43-4, 57, 61, 104, 113, Life as a Colour, 39 230 Index

Garinagu, 188, 195 imperiaVimperialism, 24, 99, 119, gender, 15, 16, 50, 58, 98, 137-9, 132, 173, 178, 181 202 Indian, 1, 125, 129, 144-5, 172, Gibbon, Edward, 19 179, 195 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 19 Jamaica/Jamaican, 3-4, 15, 17-21, Gilligan, Carol, 179 34-5, 37-8, 40, 43, 59, 61, 64, Gilroy, Beryl, 1-3, 11-16, 44 100, 102, 105, 108-9, 111-12, Black Teacher, 16 117-19, 124, 126-9, 130-2, Boy-Sandwich, 3 135, 138-9, 141 n.38, 154-5, Frangipani House, 16 160, 165, 184 Inkle and Yarico, 3 James, Louis, 71 n.73 In Praise of Love and Children, 16 Jameson, Frederick, 122 Stedman and Joanna, 3 Jin, Meiling, 1 Ten Nippers, 16 Jones, Gayl, 3 Gilroy, Paul, 3 Corregidora, 3 Glazener, Nancy, 211 Joyce, James, 48, 69 n.35 Goodison, Lorna, 3, 63-5 Ulysses, 48, 69 n.35 Baby Mother and the King of Swords, 3 Kincaid, Jamaica, 2-3, 71 n.73, 'Jamaica 1980', 64 123, 145, 165, 172-83, 198 'A Lady', 63-4 Annie John, 3, 71 n.73, 172-4, 'Lullaby for Jean Rhys', 64-5 178-80, 198 Graulich and Sisco, 91 The Autobiography of My Mother, Gregg, Veronica, 44 172-3, 181 Grenada/Grenadian, 2, 4, 23-30, 83 At the Bottom of the River, 172-3, Griffiths, Gareth, 144 177 Guatemala, 194, 198 Lucy, 172-80 Guy, Rosa, 1 A Small Place, 165, 172-3, 179-80 Guyana/Guyanese, 1, 3, 15, 44, Kipling, Rudyard, 56, 108 144-9, 151-2, 154, 162-5 Kim, 56 'The White Man's Burden', 108 Haiti, 87, 162 Kubitschek, Missy Dehn, 86 Harris, Claire, 1, 202 Harris, Wilson, 97, 148, 153, 159, Lamb, Charles, 14, 44 163 Lamming, George, 26-7, 123, 165 Hemingway, Ernest, 48-9, 70 n.40 Latin American Research Review, The Sun Also Rises, 48-9 184 Hearne, John, 43 Levy, Andrea, 4 Henfrey, June, 2 Every Light in the House Coming Home, 2 Burnin', 4 Hirsch, Marianne, 209 Never Far From Nowhere, 4 Hodge, Merle, 4, 131 London, 26-7, 29-30, 126, 147, Crick Crack, Monkey, 4 154, 160, 165-6, 184, 194-7 home, 2, 30, 34, 37, 62-3, 76, 86, Lonsdale, Thorunn, 4 127-8, 130, 138, 158, 209 Lorde, Audre, 1 Howells, Coral Ann, 45, 56, 58, 70 Zami: A New Spelling of my n.49 Name, 1 Hulme, Peter, 43 Loriggio, Francesco, 214 Index 231

Marshall, Paule, 1-4, 75-96 Mittelholzer, Edgar, 13 Brown Girl, Brownstones, 75-8, Corentyne Thunder, 13 91-2 modernism, 48, 172-3 The Chosen Place, The Timeless Mordecai, Pamela, 173 People, 78-83, 92 Morrell, Carol, 202 Daughters, 2, 75, 86-92 Morrison, Toni, 3, 190 Merle: a novella and other stories, Beloved, 3 3 The Bluest Eye, 190 Praisesong for the Widow, 2, 83-6 mulatto, 188 Reena and Other Stories, 92 Soul Clap Hands and Sing, 92 Naipaul, V.S., 167, n.24 Marson, Una, 27 A House for Mr Biswas, 167, Maupassant, Guy de, 56, 70 n.49, n.24 71 n.71 Miguel Street, 167 n.24 Fort Comme La Mort, 56 Narain, Denise deCaires, 4, 43 'Mademoiselle Fifi', 70 n.49 Newman, Judie, 66 n.9 Mayas, 188, 195 Newson, Adele S., 5 McNeill, Anthony, 65 New Yorker, 172-3, 178 'The White Shell', 65 New York Times Book Review, 181 Melville, Pauline, 1, 5, 58, 144-71 Nichols, Grace, 1, 148 'About That Two Pounds, Mrs Parrish', 148, 153, 159 obeah, 60, 145, 153 'The Conversion of Millicent O'Callaghan, Evelyn, 43, 107, 137, Vernon', 145-6, 152-3, 155, 145-6, 165 160 O'Crovley, Father Pedro Alonso, 2 'A Disguised Land', 58-9, 153-6 pania, 188, 192 'Eat Labba and Drink Creek Patterson, Orlando, 3 Water', 146-8, 159-60, 163-5 Patteson, Richard, 129 'The Girl with the Celestial Philip, Marlene Norbese, 2, 4, 204 Limb', 145, 153, 162 Harriet's Daughter, 4 'I Do Not Take Messages From Pollard, Velma, 2, 3, 83 Dead People', 145, 149, 151 Considering Women, 17 'The Iron and the Radio Have 'Gran', 3 Gone', 148, 152-3 Homestretch, 2, 21 'McGregor's Journey', 153, Karl and Other Stories, 17, 19 155-7, 159, 168, n.57 post-colonial, 98-102, 119, 122, 'A Quarrelsome Man', 159-60 128, 131-3, 135, 139, 140, 179, Shape-shifter, 5, 144-70 203, 208, 214 'The Truth is in the Clothes', post-modernism, 133, 135, 173 145-6, 148-9, 153, 155, Pound, Ezra, 44 157-8, 161-2 Powell, Patricia, 3 The Ventriloquist's Tale, 5 Me Dying Trial, 3 'You Left the Door Open', 145-6, 149, 153, 158, 161-2 Ramchand, Kenneth, 43, 65 Mercer, Kobena, 139 Reddock, Rhonda, 142 n.38 mestizo, 188, 195, 199 Rhys, Jean, 2, 4, 43-74, 119, 173 migration, 2, 26, 35-6 After Leaving Mr Mackenzie, 54-6 Minh-ha, Trinh T., 185-7 'Again the Antilles', 44-7 232 Index

Rhys - continued 'Lily, Lily', 126, 132, 136-7 'The Day They Burned the 'Love Orange', 119-21 Books', 56 'Meditation on Red', 62-4, 66 'La Grosse Fifi', 50-3 Summer Lightning, 117-19, 122, 'Let Them Call It Jazz', 58-9 126 Quartet, 47-50, 69 n.34 n.35 'Summer Lightning', 124 Smile Please: An Unfinished 'The Tenantry of Birds, 137-8 Autobiography, 69 n.33 'The Two Grandmothers', 130, 'Temps Perdi', 72 n.91 132-3 Voyage in the Dark, 2, 48, 53-4, 'The View From the Terrace', 56, 62, 69 n.34, 71 n.73, 72 137 n.91 'Zig Zag', 135-6 Wide Sargasso Sea, 43-4, 56-7, Shakespeare, William, 14, 44, 46-7, 59-65; see also 66 n.11 117 Richardson, Elaine Potter, see Shea, Renee Hausmann, 185, 194 Kincaid, Jamaica Shewcharan, Narmala, 1 Riley, Joan, 32 Shinebourne, Jan, 4 Rosella, Mireille, 203 Timepiece, 4 Roth, Walter, 144 Skow, John, 181 Enquiry into the Animism and slaves/slavery, 3, 27, 34, 36, 54, Folklore of the Guiana Indians, 61, 82, 84, 89-90, 155, 157, 144 161 Smart, Patricia, 206 Sandiford, Keith, 85 Smith, Barbara, 99 Scarboro, Ann Armstrong, 84 Smith, Lilian, 13 Schine, Cathleen, 181 Sous les verrous, 49 Seaforth, Sybil, 198 Staley, Thomas, 50-1 Growing Up with Miss Milly, 198 Sturgess, Charlotte, 5 Selvon, Sam, 15, 26, 150, 167 n.24 Moses Ascending, 150, 167 n.24 Tennyson, Alfred, 19 Senior, Olive, 3, 61-5, 71 n.73, Thomas, Elean, 59, 61, 72 n.91 117-43 The Last Room, 59-61, 72 n.91 J.scot', 126-7 Tiffin, Helen, 115 n.27 Arrival of the Snake-Woman, 117, Time, 181 124, 128 Tobago, 2, 131 J.rrival of the Snake-Woman', Transatlantic Review, 48-9 124-6, 128-9, 133 Trinidad, 1-2, 43, 131, 202, 214 'Ballad', 124, 132 Trow, George, 172 'The Boy Who Loved Ice Cream', 119-20 United States of America, 3, 13, 'Bright Thursdays', 134-5 16, 24-5, 29-30, 75, 77, 80, 86, 'The Case Against the Queen', 88-92, 127, 131-2, 172, 176-8, 127-8 185 'Colonial Girls School', 117 'Confirmation Day', 122-3 Walcott, Derek, 63 Discerner of Hearts, 118, 127 'Jean Rhys', 63 'Do Angels Wear Brassieres?' Walker, Alice, 114 123-4 Walker, Margaret, 3 'The Glass Bottom Boat', 137 Jubilee, 3 Index 233

Wasafiri, 43 Williams, Sherley Anne, 3 Washington, Booker T., 13 Dessa Rose, 3 Welsh, Sarah Lawson, 5 Willis, Susan, 78, 86 West-Indies/West-Indian, 15, 33, Wilson, Betty, 173 45, 78, 86, 104, 111-12, 137, Wiser, William, 48 146, 151, 167 n.24, 194 , 1 Zola, Emile, 53 Wilentz, Gay, 185 Nana, 53-4 Williams, Aubrey, 162 zombification, 107-8, 110