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Caribbean Short Stories THE OXFORD BOOK OF CARIBBEAN SHORT STORIES Edited by Stewart Brown ana Jolin Wickham SUB Gottingen 7 210 132 280 99 A 10145 Oxford New York OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1999 Contents Introduction xiii FRANK COLLYMORE (1893-I980) Barbados Some People are Meant to Live Alone 1 JEAN RHYS (1894-1979) Dominica Pioneers, On, Pioneers 9 ALFRED MENDES (1897-I971) Trinidad Pablo's Fanaangfo 18 ERIC WALROND (1898-I966) Guyana Drougkt 26 C. L. R. JAMES (19OI-I989) Trinidad Triumph 35 ALEJO CARPENTIER (1904-1983) Cuba Journey to the Seed. 50 Contents ROGER MAIS (1905-1955) Jamaica Red Dirt Don't Wash 62 JUAN BOSCH (b. 1910) Dominican Republic Encamacion Mendoza's Christmas Eve 7° G. CABRERA INFANTE (t>. 1922) Cuba The Doors Open at Three 80 SAM SELVON (1923-I994) Trinidad The Cricket Match 91 JOHN WICKHAM (t>. I923) Barbados The Li^ht on the Sea 96 JAN CAREW (b. 1925) Guyana Tilson Ezekiel Alias Ti-Zek 101 ISMITH KHAN (b.1925) Trinidad Shadows Move in the Britannia Bar no ' RENE DEPESTRE (b. 1926) Haiti Rosena on the Mountain 119 VI Contents ROY HEATH (b. I926) Guyana The Master Tailor and the Teacher's Skirt 138 GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ (b. 1928) Colombia The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship 148 ANDREW SALKEY (1928-1995) Jamaica A Proper Anno Domini Feeling 153 PAULE MARSHALL (b. I929) Barbados To Da-Duh, in Memoriam 159 KAMAU BRATHWAITE (b. 1930) Barbados Dream Haiti 169 ANTONIO BENITEZ ROJO (b. 193l) Cuba Buried Statues 187 c MICHAEL ANTHONY (b. 1932) ' Trinidad They Better Don't Stop the Carnival 200 V. S. NAIPAUL (b. 1932) Trinidad The Night Watchman's Occurrence Book 208 Vll Contents JOHN STEWART (b. I933) Trinidad The Old Men Used to Dance 215 AUSTIN CLARKE (b. 1934) Barbados Leaving this Island Place 220 EARL LOVELACE (b. 1935) Trinidad Victory and the Blight 228 MARYSE CONDE (b. 1937) Guadeloupe The Breadnut and the Breadfruit 235 VELMA POLLARD (b. I937) Jamaica Altamont Jones 245 THEA DOELWIJT (b. 1938) Surinam In Foreign Parts 249 ROSARIO FERRE (b. I938) Puerto Rico Wnen Women Love Men 257 E. A. MARKHAM (b. I939) Montserrat Mammies Form at the Post Office 270 viii Contents MYRIAM WARNER-VIEYRA (b. 1939) Guadeloupe Passport to Paradise 274 CLYDE HOSEIN (b. 1940) Trinidad Morris, Bnaiya 277 - WILLI CHEN (b. 194l) Trinidad Trotters 288 PAULINE MELVILLE (b. 1941) Guyana The Conversion of Millicent Vernon 292 OLIVE SENIOR (b. I941) Jamaica Do Angels Wear Brassieres? 304 REINALDO ARENAS (l943-199o) Cuba Goodbye Mother 314 LAWRENCE SCOTT (b. I943) Trinidad Ballad for the New World 326 ANA LYDIA VEGA (b. 1946) Puerto Rico Eye-Openers 333 Contents JEAN 'BINTA' BREEZE (b. I947) Jamaica Sunday Cricket 344 ASTRID ROEMER (b. 1947) Surinam The Inheritance of my Father: A Story for Listening 348 JAMAICA KINCAID (b. I949) Antigua Blackness 362 MERLE COLLINS (b. I950) Grenada The Walk 366 EDGARDO SANABRIA SANTALIZ (l§J/95l) Puerto Rico After the Hurricane 372 PATRICK CHAMOISEAU (b. 1953) Martinique Red Hot Peppers 382 LIONEL SEEPAUL (b. 1955) Trinidad Pan tor Pockot 391 MAKEDA SILVERA (b. I955) Jamaica Caribbean Chameleon 399 Contents ROBERT ANTONI (b. 1957) Trinidad/Bahamas A World of Canes 403 ZOILA ELLIS (b. 1957) Belize The Waiting Room 416 SASENARINE PERSAUD (b. I957) Guyana Canada Geese and Apple Chatney 424 GEOFFREY PHILP (b. 1958) Jamaica <T My Brother's Keeper 434 ALECIA MCKENZIE (b. i960). Jamaica Private School 442 EDWIDGE DANTICAT (b. I969) Haiti Nineteen Thirty-Seven 447 Biographical Notes 457 Suggestions for Wider Reading 467 Publisher's Acknowledgements 473 XI.
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