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The Caribbean is the source of one of the richest, most accessible, and yet technically adventurous traditions of contemporary world literature. This collection of Caribbean short stories is pan-Caribbean, including stories from the four main languages of the region: English, Spanish, French,and Dutch. Stories by major figures in the English language tradition such as V. S. Naipaul, Sam Sevlon, and Jean Rhys are set alongside their Spanish- and French-speaking contemporaries like Alejo Carpentier, Jan Bosh, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Their work, in all its diversity of style, theme,and linguistic energy, provides a context for the work of an exciting new generation of Caribbean writers like Edwidge Danticat, Robert Antoni, Astrid Roemer, and Jamaica Kincaid.A celebration of regional creativity, the collection contains sufficient surprises to keep even the most avid student of West Indian writing turning the pages, while reminding readers that the Caribbean is a multilingual, multicultural space.… (mais)
This was a very interesting collection of stories. While a bunch of them had endings that were a bit of a "downer" (like many short stories tend to), the stories were nearly all so well-written that I was still able to look at them on a more positive note. There were only 2 or 3, out of more than 50, that I truly disliked in their entirety; and not only that, but many of them I enjoyed quite a bit. This is probably the best short story collection I have ever read, and several of these stories have stayed with me.
Some of my top favorites included: Frank Collymore's Some People are Meant to Live Alone; Jean Rhys' Pioneers, Oh, Pioneers; Ismith Khan's Shadows Move in the Britannia Bar; Gabriel García Márquez's The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship; V.S. Naipaul's The Night Watchman's Occurrence Book. While these two: Jan Carew's Tilson Ezekiel Alias Ti-Zek; Olive Senior's Do Angels Wear Brassieres? were my most favorite of all the stories. I will definitely be looking into more writing by many of the authors in this collection. ( )
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The Caribbean is the source of one of the richest, most accessible, and yet technically adventurous traditions of contemporary world literature. This collection of Caribbean short stories is pan-Caribbean, including stories from the four main languages of the region: English, Spanish, French,and Dutch. Stories by major figures in the English language tradition such as V. S. Naipaul, Sam Sevlon, and Jean Rhys are set alongside their Spanish- and French-speaking contemporaries like Alejo Carpentier, Jan Bosh, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Their work, in all its diversity of style, theme,and linguistic energy, provides a context for the work of an exciting new generation of Caribbean writers like Edwidge Danticat, Robert Antoni, Astrid Roemer, and Jamaica Kincaid.A celebration of regional creativity, the collection contains sufficient surprises to keep even the most avid student of West Indian writing turning the pages, while reminding readers that the Caribbean is a multilingual, multicultural space.
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Some of my top favorites included:
Frank Collymore's Some People are Meant to Live Alone;
Jean Rhys' Pioneers, Oh, Pioneers;
Ismith Khan's Shadows Move in the Britannia Bar;
Gabriel García Márquez's The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship;
V.S. Naipaul's The Night Watchman's Occurrence Book.
While these two:
Jan Carew's Tilson Ezekiel Alias Ti-Zek;
Olive Senior's Do Angels Wear Brassieres?
were my most favorite of all the stories. I will definitely be looking into more writing by many of the authors in this collection. (