The Peepal Tree Book of Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories

The Peepal Tree Book of Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories PDF Author: Jacob James Ross
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
ISBN: 9781845234102
Category : Short stories, Caribbean (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Since its beginnings 33 years ago, Peepal Tree has published around 45 collections of Caribbean short stories, reinforcing the view that the short story is the Caribbean literary form par excellence. This anthology draws from those collections, plus a few guests, focusing on work written over the past twenty-five years, the majority dealing with the recent post-independence period up to the present. Though quality is the ultimate criteria, this anthology is unrivalled in its range across the Anglophone Caribbean and its diasporas, and representative of Caribbean ethnicities, gender and sexual orientations. Stories offer images of the city from ghettos to gated communities, suburbia, villages, the coastal margins. They display a range of contemporary concerns: social fragmentation, political corruption, sexual politics. They display a range of short story genres from satire, gritty realism, magical realism, fantasy, the gothic, the folkloric, horror, crime, erotica, flash fiction, the speculative... Whilst the stories in the anthology collectively offer an insightful picture of both the contemporary Caribbean and of the current status of the Caribbean short story as a form, the overall editorial aim has been to create a book that gives the reader a rich, varied and rewarding reading experience. The collection includes the work of, amongst others, Opal Palmer Adisa, Christine Barrow, Rhoda Bharath, Jacqueline Bishop, Hazel Campbell, Merle Collins, Cyril Dabydeen, Kwame Dawes, Curdella Forbes, Ifeona Fulani, Keith Jardim, Barbara Jenkins, Meiling Jin, Cherie Jones, Helen Klonaris, Sharon Leach, Alecia McKenzie, Sharon Millar, Anton Nimblett, Geoffrey Philp, Velma Pollard, Jennifer Rahim, Raymond Ramcharitar, Jacob Ross, Leone Ross, Olive Senior, Jan Shinebourne, Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw and N.D. Williams.

The Peepal Tree Book of Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories

The Peepal Tree Book of Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories PDF Author: Jacob James Ross
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
ISBN: 9781845234102
Category : Short stories, Caribbean (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Since its beginnings 33 years ago, Peepal Tree has published around 45 collections of Caribbean short stories, reinforcing the view that the short story is the Caribbean literary form par excellence. This anthology draws from those collections, plus a few guests, focusing on work written over the past twenty-five years, the majority dealing with the recent post-independence period up to the present. Though quality is the ultimate criteria, this anthology is unrivalled in its range across the Anglophone Caribbean and its diasporas, and representative of Caribbean ethnicities, gender and sexual orientations. Stories offer images of the city from ghettos to gated communities, suburbia, villages, the coastal margins. They display a range of contemporary concerns: social fragmentation, political corruption, sexual politics. They display a range of short story genres from satire, gritty realism, magical realism, fantasy, the gothic, the folkloric, horror, crime, erotica, flash fiction, the speculative... Whilst the stories in the anthology collectively offer an insightful picture of both the contemporary Caribbean and of the current status of the Caribbean short story as a form, the overall editorial aim has been to create a book that gives the reader a rich, varied and rewarding reading experience. The collection includes the work of, amongst others, Opal Palmer Adisa, Christine Barrow, Rhoda Bharath, Jacqueline Bishop, Hazel Campbell, Merle Collins, Cyril Dabydeen, Kwame Dawes, Curdella Forbes, Ifeona Fulani, Keith Jardim, Barbara Jenkins, Meiling Jin, Cherie Jones, Helen Klonaris, Sharon Leach, Alecia McKenzie, Sharon Millar, Anton Nimblett, Geoffrey Philp, Velma Pollard, Jennifer Rahim, Raymond Ramcharitar, Jacob Ross, Leone Ross, Olive Senior, Jan Shinebourne, Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw and N.D. Williams.

The Caribbean Short Story

The Caribbean Short Story PDF Author: Lucy Evans
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
ISBN: 9781845231262
Category : Caribbean fiction (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The short story has been integral to the development of Caribbean literature, and continues to offer possibilities for invention and reinvigoration. As the most comprehensive study of its kind, this important and timely volume explores the significance of the short story form to Caribbean cultural production across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The twenty original essays collected here offer a unique set of inquiries and insights into the historical, cultural and stylistic characteristics of Caribbean short story writing. The book draws together diverse critical perspectives from established and emerging scholars, including Shirley Chew, Alison Donnell, James Procter, Raymond Ramcharitar and Elaine Savory. Essays cover the publishing histories of specific islands; intersections of the local, global and diasporic; treatments of race and gender; language, orality and genre; and cultural contexts from tourism to calypso to cricket. Book jacket.

The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories

The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories PDF Author: Stewart Brown
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192802293
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 476

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Book Description
The Caribbean is the source of one of the richest, most accessible, and yet technically adventurous traditions of contemporary world literature. This collection extends beyond the realm of English-speaking writers, to include stories published in Spanish, French, and Dutch. It brings together contributions from major figures such as V. S. Naipaul, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and work from the exciting new generation of Caribbean writers represented by Edwidge Danticat, and Jamaica Kincaid.

Communities in Contemporary Anglophone Caribbean Short Stories

Communities in Contemporary Anglophone Caribbean Short Stories PDF Author: Lucy Evans
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1789623456
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Book Description
This book explores representations of community in Anglophone Caribbean short story collections and cycles of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.

Coming Up Hot: Eight New Poets from the Caribbean

Coming Up Hot: Eight New Poets from the Caribbean PDF Author: Peekash Press
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1617754382
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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Book Description
Featuring poems from: Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné, Danielle Jennings, Ruel Johnson, Monica Minott, Debra Providence, Shivanee Ramlochan, Colin Robinson, and Sassy Ross. With a preface by Kwame Dawes. With a generous sample from each poet, this anthology is an opportunity to discover some of the best, new, previously unpublished voices from the Caribbean. This is a generation that has absorbed Derek Walcott, Kamau Brathwaite, Martin Carter, and Lorna Goodison, while finding its own distinctive voice. Peekash Press is a collaboration between Akashic and UK-based publisher Peepal Tree Press, with a focus on publishing writers from and still living in the Caribbean. The debut title from Peekash, Pepperpot: Best New Stories from the Caribbean, was published in 2014. Kwame Dawes is the author of eighteen collections of poetry, most recently Duppy Conqueror, as well as two novels, numerous anthologies, and plays. He has won Pushcart prizes, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Emmy, and was the 2013 awardee of the Paul Engel Prize. At the University of Nebraska--Lincoln, he is a Chancellor’s Professor of English and Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner. Dawes is the associate poetry editor at Peepal Tree Press, the series editor of the University of South Carolina Poetry Series, and the founding director of the African Poetry Book Fund. Dawes also teaches in Pacific University’s MFA program, and is the director of the biennial Calabash International Literary Festival.

Pepperpot

Pepperpot PDF Author:
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1617752711
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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Book Description
A pan-Caribbean anthology of original short stories culled from the very best entries to the Commonwealth Short Story Prize.

Caribbean Erotic

Caribbean Erotic PDF Author: Opal Palmer Adisa
Publisher: Peepal Tree PressLtd
ISBN: 9781845230890
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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"The beauty of Caribbean Erotic is that it lifts the veils that curtain the many rooms of Caribbean sexuality; its genius is its skilful guidance through the lusty, bawdy, worshipful and spiritual wealth, as we lose our senses to find our selves." Earl Lovelace "Just as the Caribbean evokes the scent of the sea and the taste of ripe papaya, so too does Caribbean Erotic, offering readers a sensual treat for both the senses and the intellect." Mitzi Szereto, author of In Sleeping Beauty's Bed: Erotic Fairy Tales "What power. What grace. Here we find the body as landscape, the body as map and site of healing, opening, giving, taking, naming, renaming, and remaking. Here we find the language of the living body and the language of intimate desire `rubbing up' to create this invaluable addition to the growing conversation about how we live, how we love, and how important it is that we remove the silence that shrouds the most intimate, most dear parts of our selves. Caribbean Erotic reminds us why we must never, as Adisa warns us, never again allow its existence to be taken for granted." Samiya Bashir, author of Gospel: Poems & editor, Best Black Women's Erotica 2

Closure

Closure PDF Author: Jacob Ross
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
ISBN: 9781845232887
Category : Black people
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
This ambitious and intriguing anthology of short stories showcases each author's most challenging work. These works from writers who are happy to describe themselves as Black British, have a rich variety of styles, forms, and themes, from raw realism, the erotic, and elegant economy, to the fanciful, humorous, and the tender.

The Ten Days Executive

The Ten Days Executive PDF Author: Rhoda Bharath
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781845232931
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Rhoda Bharath's stories bring a very contemporary Trinidad of the internet and social media into an urgent but complex focus. Told through a distinctive range of individual voices, they visit the domestic and public spaces of a country moving too fast between the knowing innocence of its past and the experience of a globalized present where the the

The Ice Migration

The Ice Migration PDF Author: Jacqueline Crooks
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
ISBN: 9781845233587
Category : East Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- The Ice Migration Route -- Family Tree -- Chigoe -- Black Cowboys -- Breaking Stones -- The Ice Migration -- Backra -- The Lamp -- Walk Good -- Cornmeal Dumplings -- Talking Bad -- Swinging Low -- Survival of the Fittest -- Roaring River Pickney -- In the Spirit -- Gwaan -- Old Time People -- The Old Goat -- The Offering -- Orchids and Bones -- Soft to the Touch -- Skinning Up -- Bu'n Up -- Hard Ears -- The Crypt -- Cool Burn -- Author.