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Introduction\n\n2  \n# The Birth of Women's Time\n\nby Jeremy Poynting2-3  \nWomen Writers in the Caribbeanby Merle Collins4-5  \n# The Writers\n\nBeryl Gilroy6-11Hazel Campbell12-13Rachel Manley  \n14-15Velma Pollard16-17June Henfrey18-19Janice Shinebourne20-21Meiling Jin22-23Brenda Flanagan24-25marina ama omowale maxwell25-26Denise Harris27-28Mahadai Das28-29Lakshmi Persaud30-31Narmala Shewcharan32-34A Guide to Further Reading35Index of Titles &Ordering Information36Pull-out Order Form………………   ……centre pagesTrade Information…………  ………………  back cover  \nPEEPAL TREE CARIBBEAN WOMEN WRITERS ·DAWTAS WRITE HERSTORY  \nTHE BIRTH OF WOMEN'S TIME  \ntural expression which have been and are atthe heart of the region's resilience.Not onlyhave women been at the forefront of popu-lar resistance to oppression,but they havebeen the chief preservers of cultural conti-nuities:the storytellers,the healers and theshapers of community rituals,and it is in thisdoubleness,occupying the political centrestage at the same time as nurturing the soci-ety's growth points,that one sees what is mostdistinctive about Caribbean women's writing.  \n\"It is a marvel that there have been so manycreative women artists in the Caribbean.Toomany have fallen silent or been driven un-derground,smothered by husbands,childrenor jobs…”  \nmarina ama omowale maxwell  \nIn this respect the struggle from voicelessnessto voice for Caribbean women writers ap-pears to be no different to that of womenanywhere.The essay by Sandra Courtman(pp 8-9)describing the struggle of Beryl Gilroyto achieve publication is a salutary record ofthose kinds of pressures to silence.There are,though,some specific barriers to women'screativity which have been rooted in the his-tory of the region,and forms of resistance tothose barriers which have given Caribbeanwomen's writing its distinctive voice.  \nCaribbean women's writing has madeno attempt to occupy some alternative spaceseparate from the male'novel in the waythat women's writing in Britain has sometimesdone.Virtually all the novels and collectionsof stories published by Peepal Tree place theirevents on (or just off)a political stage whichshows men and women struggling againstthe Caribbean's endemic oppressions of pov-erty and racism and the social violence (fre-quently turned inwards against women)whichis its symptom.Brenda Flanagan's You AloneAre Dancing,for instance has ts heroine,Beatrice,leading the villagers of Rosehillagainst expropriation by land speculators.(See p.24).As much as in male writing,Car-ibbean women's fiction has been concernedwith the connections between past andpresent.For instance,Hazel Campbell's no-vella\"Jacob Bubbles\"in Singerman,inter-weaves the brutal past of slavery with the con-temporary Jamaican world of gangsterismand intra-communal violence,in a brilliantlyimagined working out of these relationships.June Henfrey's stories in Coming Home por-tray women's lives at key points in Caribbeansocial change from 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