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Whistling Bird: Women Writers of the Caribbean » (New Edition)
Authors: Elaine Campbell (Editor), Pierrette (Ed.) Frickey, Pierrette Frickey
ISBN-13: 9780894104107, ISBN-10: 0894104101
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.
Date Published: February 1998
Edition: New Edition
Author Biography: Elaine Campbell
Book Synopsis
Table of Contents
| Introduction, Elaine Campbell and Pierrette Frickey | 1 | |
| Antigua | ||
| Excerpt from The Autobiography of My Mother | 9 | |
| Barbados | ||
| "I Do Not Know My Father" | 13 | |
| Belize | ||
| "Longtime Story" | 15 | |
| Curacao | ||
| "Song for Mother Earth," "Kantika Pa Mama Tera" | 27 | |
| "The Promise," "Promesa" | 30 | |
| "Old Lady," "Habai" | 32 | |
| Dominica | ||
| "The Child's Return" | 35 | |
| "Love for an Island" | 36 | |
| "Miss Garthside's Greenhouse" | 37 | |
| "Smile Please" | 41 | |
| "Caribman" | 43 | |
| "Blacksister" | 44 | |
| "C'est juste une guepe" | 44 | |
| "Maroussia" | 45 | |
| "The Whistling Bird" | 47 | |
| Excerpt from Wide Sargasso Sea | 51 | |
| Grenada | ||
| "Madelene" | 57 | |
| Guadeloupe | ||
| "Wayang Kulit" | 71 | |
| Excerpt from The Bridge of Beyond | 77 | |
| Guyana | ||
| Excerpt from Frangipani House | 83 | |
| "Web of Kin" | 89 | |
| "We the Women" | 91 | |
| "These Islands" | 92 | |
| Haiti | ||
| "Night Women" | 93 | |
| Jamaica | ||
| "Candy Seller" | 97 | |
| "Bans O'Ooman!" | 99 | |
| Excerpt from Myal | 101 | |
| Excerpt from Abeng | 107 | |
| "Burnt Hill" | 117 | |
| "Mulatta Song" | 127 | |
| "Missing the Mountains" | 129 | |
| Excerpt from Pocomania | 131 | |
| "There Will Come a Time" | 139 | |
| "Marine Turtle" | 141 | |
| "Mule" | 143 | |
| "Discerner of Hearts" | 145 | |
| Lunchtime Revolution | 169 | |
| Martinique | ||
| "Sweat, Sugar and Blood" | 193 | |
| Puerto Rico | ||
| "Eye-Opener" | 203 | |
| Excerpt from When I Was Puerto Rican | 215 | |
| Trinidad | ||
| "The Tick-Tick Bicycle" | 231 | |
| "Inez" | 239 | |
| Excerpt from Bruised Hibiscus | 243 | |
| "Arise, My Love" | 259 | |
| About the Authors | 265 | |
| About the Editors | 275 |
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