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A collection of essays on Caribbean women's texts that engage issues of collective and individual memory, this volume brings together analyses presenting multiple perspectives from scholars based in British, American, Caribbean, and European universities. Among the texts explored is writing by Erna Brodber, Lorna Goodison, Georgina Herrera, Merle Hodge, Jamaica Kincaid, Michele Lacrosil, Elma Napier, Joan Riley, and Olive Senior. The contributors include Alba Ambert, Aida Bahr, Paulette Brown-Hinds, Mary Condé, Giovanna Covi, Alison Donnell, Maria Cristina Fumagalli, Beryl Gilroy, Sam Haigh, Conrad James, Paula E. Morgan, Denise deCaires Narain, Roshi Naidoo, Evelyn O'Callaghan, Beverley Ormerod, M. Nourbese Philip, Velma Pollard, Sheila Rampersad, and Sarah Lawson Welsh.