Description
Book SynopsisIntended as an introductory sourcebook, Olive Senior provides a background to Caribbean literature, politics and society.This text takes a multidisciplinary approach to the study of women and gender issues in the Caribbean. Olive Senior, using her imaginative skills as a poet, has written a readable books based on a substantial academic examinationof women's lives and work in fourteen countries of the Caribbean. In addition she uses examples from literature and popular culture, adn the voices of the women themselves. Caribbean: ISER, University of the West Indies
Trade Review...invaluable sourcebook not only for women's studies courses but for anyone who seeks to understand the background to Caribbean literature, politics and society. - Robin Cohen, Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick * . *
