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The discussion is situated in relation to the predominantly male tradition of Caribbean poetry, and explores the factors which have resulted in the relative marginality of women poets within nationalistic poetic discourses. Denise deCaires Narain employs a range of cutting-edge feminist and postcolonial approaches to focus on a diverse range of themes, such as orality, sexuality, the body, performance and poetic identity.  \nThe book begins with a discussion of two early Caribbean women poets, Una Marson and Phyllis Shand Allfrey, and suggests that their very different poetic identities and concerns highlight the hybridity of a nascent Caribbean women’s tradition of poetry. Louise Bennett’s work, with its emphasis on Creole and orality, has been widely acknowledged as inaugurating an authentically Caribbean voice – and the paradoxes and possibilities which her Creole voice represents are then explored in the work of Valerie Bloom, Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze, Merle Collins and Amryl Johnson. The work of Lorna Goodison, Mahadai Das, Grace Nichols and Marlene Nourbese Philip reveals the gendered implications of poetic voice and identity, particularly in relation to the representation of the Caribbean woman’s body. Finally, Denise deCaires Narain appraises the ways in which Caribbean women’s writing has come to constitute a discrete field of writing and the exclusions involved in such a constituency.  \nContemporary Caribbean Women’s Poetry provides detailed readings of individual poems by women poets whose work has not yet received the sustained critical attention it deserves. These readings are contextualized both within Caribbean cultural debates and postcolonial and feminist critical discourses in a lively and engaged way; re-visiting nationalist debates as well as topical issues about the performance of gendered and raced identities within poetic discourse. It will be ground-breaking reading for all those interested in postcolonialism, Gender Studies, Caribbean Studies and contemporary poetry.  \nDenise deCaires Narain is a Lecturer in English in the School of African and Asian Studies at the University of Sussex. Born and brought up in Guyana, she has also taught at the University of the West Indies.  \nPreface  \nThis book offers an account of Caribbean women’s poetry which seeks both to introduce the uninitiated reader to this work as well as to offer an argument about the location of these texts within the broader context of Caribbean writing. It is motivated, in the first place, then, by an apparently straightforward agenda: that of making Caribbean women poets more visible in the literary discourse of the region. It is widely acknowledged that, historically, male writers have dominated the Caribbean literary landscape, and writers such as C.L.R. James, George Lamming, Sam Selvon, Wilson Harris, Derek Walcott, E.K. Brathwaite and V.S. Naipaul (among others) are generally recognized as the founding fathers ofa West Indian literary tradition. The substantial increase in publications by women in the last two decades, however, has significantly altered the shape – and ‘gender’ – of this literary landscape. Since starting the research for this project some years ago, as part of a doctoral thesis, Caribbean women’s writing has become a wellestablished field of literature, sustaining conferences on a regular basis and generating a steady stream of publications. Within this newly defined field of writing, it is fair to say that, while a handful of Caribbean women poets (such as Lorna Goodison, Grace Nichols, Dionne Brand and Marlene Nourbese Philip) have now established international reputations, it is women’s fiction (by writers such as Jamaica Kincaid, Olive Senior, Erna Brodber, Pauline Melville and many others) which has made a much bigger impact in establ","cbCaidlnqBNL3iH3","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidlnqBNL3iH3","pdf",1457284,267,"English","# Preface\n## Visibility of Caribbean women poets\n## Gender, authorship, and poetic identity\n## Debates on language and authenticity","[{\"question\":\"What is the central focus of the book?\",\"answer\":\"The book focuses on Caribbean women’s poetry, offering sustained critical readings of individual poems and arguing for the visibility and distinct location of these texts within Caribbean literary discourse.\"},{\"question\":\"Which critical approaches does the author use?\",\"answer\":\"Denise deCaires Narain employs cutting-edge feminist and postcolonial approaches to examine themes including orality, sexuality, the body, performance, and poetic identity.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the book relate women’s poetry to broader Caribbean poetic traditions?\",\"answer\":\"It situates women’s poetry in relation to a predominantly male Caribbean poetry tradition, exploring the factors behind the marginality of women poets in nationalistic poetic discourses.\"}]","Contemporary Caribbean Women’s Poetry | PDF",1789773051,411]