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Border crossings : a trilingual anthology of Caribbean women writers
- Title
- Border crossings : a trilingual anthology of Caribbean women writers / edited by Nicole Roberts and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw.
- Publication
- Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2011.
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- Description
- xxxii, 266 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- 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-resent language barriers that have for too long limited the ways in which the Caribbean is read, perceived and interpreted. What is distinctive about this work is its trilingual nature: all of the stories appear in English, French and Spanish. 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.
- Subjects
- Short stories, Caribbean (French) > Translations into Spanish
- Short stories, Caribbean (English) > Translations into French
- Short stories, Caribbean (Spanish) > Translations into English
- Women authors, Caribbean
- Short stories, Caribbean (English) > Translations into Spanish
- Short stories, Caribbean (French) > Translations into English
- Caribbean fiction > Women authors
- Short stories, Caribbean (Spanish) > Translations into French
- Short stories, Caribbean
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Language (note)
- In English, French and Spanish.
- Contents
- Border crossings: an introduction = Cruces fronterizos: introducción = Passages de frontieres: introduction -- Bright Thursdays = Jueves soleados = Les beaux jeudis / Olive Senior (Jamaica) -- The upside-downess of the world as it unfolds = Las vueltas que da la vida en su discurrir = La monde à l'envers / Shani Mootoo (Trinidad) -- Amélie et les anolis = Amélie and the anolis = Amélie y los anolis / Gisèle Pineau (Guadeloupe) -- Les survivants = The survivors = Los sobrevivientes / Yanick Lahens (Haiti) -- Endre condicionales e indicativos = Between conditionals and indicatives = Entre conditionnels et indicatifs / Carmen Lugo Filippi (Puerto Rico) -- Kid Bururú y los caníbales = Kid Bururú and the cannibals = Kid Bururú et les canibales / Mirta Yáñez (Cuba).
- Call Number
- Sc E 13-918
- ISBN
- 9789766402518
- 9766402515
- LCCN
- 2012424463
- OCLC
- 733100108
- Title
- Border crossings : a trilingual anthology of Caribbean women writers / edited by Nicole Roberts and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw.
- Imprint
- Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Language
- In English, French and Spanish.
- Added Author
- Roberts, Nicole, 1961-Walcott-Hackshaw, Elizabeth.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 13-918