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The Oxford book of Caribbean short stories / edited by Stewart Brown and John Wickham.

Title
The Oxford book of Caribbean short stories / edited by Stewart Brown and John Wickham.
Publication
Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Brown, Stewart, 1951-
  • Wickham, John, 1923-2001.
  • Wickham, John.
Description
xxxiii, 476 p.; 22 cm.
Alternative Title
Caribbean short stories
Subject
  • Caribbean Area > Social life and customs > Fiction
  • Short stories, Caribbean (English)
  • Short stories, West Indian (English)
  • West Indies > Social life and customs > Fiction
Genre/Form
Fiction
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-471).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • Some People are Meant to Live Alone / Frank Collymors -- Pioneers, Oh, Pioneers / Jean Rhys -- Pablo's Fandango / Alfred Mendes -- Drought / Eric Walrond -- Triumph / C.L.R. James -- Journey to the Seed / Alejo Carpentier -- Red Dirt Don't Wash / Roger Mais -- Encarnacion Mendoza's Christmas Eve / Juan Bosch -- The Doors Open at Three / G. Cabrera Infante -- The Cricket Match / Sam Selvon -- The Light on the Sea / John Wickham -- Tilson Ezekiel Alias Ti-Zek / Jan Carew -- Shadows Move in the Britannia Bar / Ismith Khan -- Rosena on the Mountain / Rene Depestre -- The Master Tailor and the Teacher's Skirt / Roy Heath -- The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- A Proper Anno Domini Feeling / Andrew Salkey -- To Da-Duh, in Memoriam / Paule Marshall -- Dream Haiti / Kamau Brathwaite -- Buried Statues / Antonio Benitez Rojo -- They Better Don't Stop the Carnival / Michael Anthony -- The Night Watchman's Occurrence Book / V.S. Naipaul --^
  • The Old Men Used to Dance / John Stewart -- Leaving this Island Place / Austin Clarke -- Victory and the Blight / Earl Lovelace -- The Breadnut and the Breadfruit / Maryse Conde -- Altamont Jones / Velma Pollard -- In Foreign Parts / Thea Doelwijt -- When Women Love Men / Rosario Ferre -- Mammie's Form at the Post Office / E.A. Markham -- Passport to Paradise / Myriam Warner-Vieyra -- Morris, Bhaiya / Clyde Hosein -- Trotters / Willi Chen -- The Conversion of Millicent Vernon / Pauline Melville -- Do Angels Wear Brassieres? / Olive Senior -- Goodbye Mother / Reinaldo Arenas -- Ballad for the New World / Lawrence Scott -- Eye-Openers / Ana Lydia Vega -- Sunday Cricket / Jean 'Binta' Breeze -- The Inheritance of my Father: A Story for Listening / Astrid Roemer -- Blackness / Jamaica Kincaid -- The Walk / Merle Collins -- After the Hurricane / Edgardo Sanabria Santaliz -- Red Hot Peppers / Patrick Chamoiseau -- Pan for Pockot / Lionel Seepaul -- Caribbean Chameleon / Makeda Silvera --^
  • A World of Canes / Robert Antoni -- The Waiting Room / Zoila Ellis -- Canada Geese and Apple Chatney / Sasenarine Persaud -- My Brother's Keeper / Geoffrey Philp -- Private School / Alecia McKenzie -- Nineteen Thirty-Seven / Edwidge Danticat.
ISBN
0192832417 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^98029731^
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library