Border Crossings: A Trilingual Anthology of Caribbean Women Writers (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789766402518)

Literature has no geographical border and can so easily relocate and migrate into our literary imagination. The only real difficulty facing such crossings is the ever-present language barriers that have for too long limited the ways in which the Caribbean is read, perceived and interpreted. What is distinctive about Border Crossings: A Trilingual Anthology of Caribbean Women Writers is its trilingual nature; all of the stories appear in English, French and Spanish. To date, no anthology of short stories from the Caribbean region has accomplished this.The anthology includes stories from Guadeloupe (Gis le Pineau), Trinidad ( Shani Mootoo), Haiti (Yanick Lahens), Jamaica (Oliver Senior), Puerto Rico (Carmen Lugo Filippi ) and Cuba (Mirta Y ez). Many stories in the collection do not offer the reader a comforting end. Instead, they suggest the possibilities and the complexities of depicting a Caribbean, not singular but plural, not closed but open-ended and decidedly one without borders.

Author: Nicole Roberts
ISBN-10: 9766402515
ISBN-13: 9789766402518
Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
Language: English
Published: 08/31/2011
Pages: 292
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2012