Part III A Guide to Fiction

by Caribbean Women Writers

A to Z of Authors and Works by Country of

Origin

Antigua Jamaica Kincaid

Annie John (1983) At the Bottom of the River (stories) (1983) A Small Place (essay) (1988) Lucy (1990) The Autobiography of My Mother (1996)

Barbados June Henfrey

Coming home and other stories (1994) Paule Marshall

Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959) The Chosen Place, The Timeless People (1968) Merle: a novella and other stories (1983) Praisesong for the Widow (1983) Daughters (1991)

Hazelle Palmer Tales from the Gardens and Beyond (1995)

Belize Zee Edgell

Beka Lamb (1982) In Times Like These (1991) The Festival of San joaquin (1997)

Carriacou Audre Lorde

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982)

Cuba Cristina Garcia

Dreaming in Cuban (1992)

Dominica Phyllis Shand Allfrey

The Orchid House (1953)

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220 Caribbean Women Writers

Jean Rhys The Left Bank and Other Stories (1927) Quartet (1928) (first published as Postures) After Leaving Mr Mackenzie (1930) Voyage in the Dark (1934) Good Morning, Midnight (1939) Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) Tigers Are Better-Looking (1968) Sleep It Off Lady (1976) Tales of the Wide Caribbean: a New Collection of Short Stories (1985)

Grenada Jean Buffong

Under the Silk Cotton Tree (1992) Snowflakes in the Sun (1996)

Merle Collins Angel (1987) Rain Darling (stories) (1990) The Colour of Forgetting (1995)

Nellie Payne and Jean Buffong Jump-Up-and-Kiss-Me: Two stories from Grenada (1990)

Guyana Joan Cambridge

Clarise Cumberbatch Want to Go Home (1987) Norma De Haarte

Guyana Betrayal (1991) Beryl Gilroy

Black Teacher (autobiography) (1976) Frangipani House (1986) Boy-Sandwich (1989) Stedman and Joanna -A Love in Bondage (1991) Sunlight on Sweet Water (autobiography) (1994) Gather the Faces (1996) In Praise of Love and Children (1996) Inkle and Yarico (1996)

Denise Harris Web of Secrets (1996)

Meiling Jin Song of the Boatwoman (1996)

Pauline Melville Shape-shifter (1990) The Ventriloquist's Tale (1997) The Migration of Ghosts (stories) (1998)

Grace Nichols Whole of a Morning Sky (1986)

Narmala Shewcharan Tomorrow Is Another Day (1994)

Jan Shinebourne Timepiece (1986)

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The Last English Plantation (1988)

Haiti Edwidge Danticat

Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994) Krik? Krak! (stories) (1996)

Jamaica Opal Palmer Adisa

Bake-Face and Other Guava Stories (1986) It Begins With Tears (1997)

Erna Brodber jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home (1980) Myal (1988) Louisiana (1994)

Hazel D. Campbell The Rag Doll, and other stories (1978) Woman's Tongue: stories (1985) Singerman (stories) (1992)

Michelle Cliff Abeng (1984) No Telephone to Heaven (1987) Bodies of Water (stories) (1990) Free Enterprise (1993)

Judith Woolcock Colombo The Fablesinger (1989)

Christine Craig Mint Tea and other stories (1993)

Vernella Fuller Going Back Home (1992) Unlike Normal Women (1995)

Lorna Goodison Baby Mother and the King of Swords (stories) (1990)

Jean Goulbourne Excavation (1997)

Andrea Levy Every Light in the House Burnin' (1994) Never Far from Nowhere (1996)

Alecia McKenzie Satellite City and other stories (1992)

Dianne Maguire Dry Land Tourist and other stories (1991)

Velma Pollard Considering Women (stories) (1989) Homestretch (1994) Karl and other stories (1994)

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222 Caribbean Women Writers

Patricia Powell Me Dying Trial (1993) A Small Gathering of Bones (1994)

Joan Riley The Unbelonging (1985) Waiting in the Twilight (1987) Romance (1988) A Kindness to the Children (1992)

Sybil Seaforth Growing Up with Miss Milly (1988)

Olive Senior Summer Lightning and other stories (1986) Arrival of the Snake-Woman and other stories (1989) Discerner of Hearts and other stories (1995)

Makeda Silvera Remembering G and other stories (1991) Her Head A Village (stories) (1994)

Vanessa Spence The Roads Are Down (1993)

Elean Thomas The Last Room (1991)

Jeanne Wilson Model for Murder (1993)

Puerto Rico Esmeralda Santiago

America's Dream (1996)

Tobago Marlene Nourbese Philip

Harriet's Daughter (1988)

Trinidad Valerie Belgrave

Ti Marie (1988) Dionne Brand

Sans Souci and other stories (1988) In Another Place, Not Here (1996)

Brenda Flanagan You Alone Are Dancing (1990)

Rosa Guy A Measure of Time (1983)

Claire Harris Drawing Down a Daughter (1992)

Merle Hodge Crick Crack, Monkey (1970) For the Life of Laetitia (1993)

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Amryl Johnson Sequins for a Ragged Hem (travel book) (1988)

Marina Ama Omowale Maxwell Chopstix in Mauby: A Novel of Magical Realism (1996)

Elizabeth Nunez When Rocks Dance (1986) Bruised Hibiscus (1994)

Lakshmi Persaud Butterfly in the Wind (1990) Sastra (1993)

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Further Reading

Anim-Addo, J. (ed.). Framing the Word: Gender and Genre in Caribbean Women's Writing. London: Whiting and Birch, 1996.

Ashcroft, B., G. Griffiths and H. Tiffin. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-colonial Literatures. London: Routledge, 1989.

--. The Post-Colonial Studies Reader. London: Routledge, 1995. Bardolph, J. (ed.). Short Fiction in the New Literatures in English: Proceed­

ings of the Nice Conference of the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. Nice: Faculte des Lettres et Sciences Humaines de Nice, 1988.

Barfoot, C.C. and Theo D'haen (eds). Shades of Empire in Colonial and Post-Colonial Literatures. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1993.

Birbalsingh, F. (ed.). Frontiers of Caribbean Literature in English. London and Basingstoke: Macmillan Educational, 1996.

Boehmer, E. Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migrant Metaphors. Ox­ford: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Boucher, P.P. Cannibal Encounters: Europeans and Island Caribs, 1492-1763. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.

Broe, M.L. and A. Ingram (eds). Women's Writing in Exile. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1989.

Brown, S. (ed.). Caribbean New Wave: Contemporary Short Stories. Oxford: Heinemann, 1990.

Busby, M. (ed.). Daughters of Africa: an International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient Egyptian to the Present. London: Jonathan Cape, 1992.

Butcher, M. Tibisiri: Caribbean Writers and Critics. Sydney: Dangaroo Press, 1989.

Carter, E., J. Donald and J. Squires (eds) Space and Place: Theories of Iden­tity and Location. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1993.

Chamberlain, M. (ed.). Writing Lives: Conversations Between Women Writ­ers. London: Virago, 1988.

Chew, S. and A. Rutherford. Unbecoming Daughters of the Empire. Sydney: Dangaroo Press, 1993.

Christian, B. Black Feminist Criticism: Perspectives on Black Women Writers. New York: Pergamon Press, 1985.

Clarke, E. My Mother Who Fathered Me: a Study of the Family in Three Selected Communities in Jamaica. London: Allen and Unwin, 1957.

Cobham, R. and M. Collins (eds). Watchers and Seekers: Creative Writing by Black Women in Britain. London: Women's Press, 1987.

Collier, G. (ed.). Us/Them: Translation, Transcription and Identity in Post­Colonial Literary Cultures. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1992.

Cooper, C. Noises in the Blood: Orality, Gender and the 'Vulgar' Body of Jamaican Popular Culture. London and Basingstoke: Macmillan Education, 1993.

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Index

Abruna, Laura Niesen de, 4, 71 n.73

Africa/African, 1, 14, 27, 83-5, 100, 147, 164, 186, 188, 212

African-American, 1, 75, 78, 83, 86, 88, 91

African-Caribbean, 178 Afro-Guyanese, 1 Allfrey, Phyllis Shand, 56

The Orchid House, 56-7 Amerindian, 145, 163-4 America, see United States of Angelou, Maya, 189

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 189

Angier, Carole, 50 Antigua, 2, 172, 175, 177-80 Ashcroft, WD., 99 Atwood, Margaret, 164

Surfacing, 164

Bajan, 77-8 Barbados/Barbadian, 1-2, 76-8, 92 Barred, see Sous les verrous Barrow, Errol, 1 Basket of Flowers, The, 19 Belgrave, Valerie, 1

Ti Marie, 1 Belize, 184-8, 190, 192-9 Bennett, Arnold, 50-1, 53

The Old Wives' Tale, 50-3 Berg, Leila, 16 Berry, James, 152

'On an Afternoon Train from Victoria to Purley, 1955', 152

Birch, Eva Lennox, 86 Bishop, Maurice, 23 Brand, Dionne, 1, 2, 4, 5, 43, 99,

202-16 In Another Place Not Here, 5 'No rinsed blue sky, no red

flower fences', 203

'Photograph', 4, 205-6, 208 Sans Souci, 5, 203

Brathwaite, Edward Kamau, 43, 100, 102, 113, 162, 164

Brathwaite, Ted, 14 Choice of Straws, 14 Paid Servant, 14 To Sir with Love, 14

Breeze, Jean Binta, 65 'Red Rebel Song', 65

Britain/British, 1, 3, 12-15, 25-6, 30, 33-5, 37, 40, 147, 149, 153, 156-7, 166, 168 n.58, 178-80, 185, 189, 194

British Guiana, 1, 13-14 British Honduras, see Belize Brodber, Erna, 3-4, 97-116, 123,

145, 163 'Fiction in the Scientific

Procedure', 100 Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come

Home 2, 97, 101-7, 109-111, 128

Louisiana, 97, 101, 110-14 Myal, 3, 97, 107-11

Bromley, Roger, 186 Bronte, Charlotte, 44, 59

Jane Eyre, 44, 59, 63 Buffong, Jean, 3

Under the Silk Cotton Tree, 3 Byron, George Gordon, 6th Lord,

14, 44

Callaloo, 115 n.27, 180 Cambridge, Joan, 1-2

Clarise Cumberbatch Want to Go Home, 1-2

Campbell, Elaine, 56 Canada/Canadian, 1-3, 5, 118,

202, 214 Canetti, Elias, 144 Caribbean, 1-5, 20, 24, 26, 28, 30,

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Index 229

34-6, 43-5, 55-6, 59, 61, 63, 66, 75-6, 78-80, 83-6, 88, 89, 91-2, 97, 99, 101, 104, 112, 118-19, 121, 124, 126, 131-2, 135, 139, 147, 150-3, 155, 164-6, 168 n.58, 172-4, 185, 190, 196, 198, 203-5, 208, 214, 215 n.S

Caribs, 72 n.91, 172, 188 Carriacou, 1, 2, 84-5 Central America, 184 Chaucer, Geoffrey, 46-7 Chawaf, Chatal, 100 Chinese, 1, 195 Chodorow, Nancy, 179 Christian, Barbara, 78, 80, 84 Cliff, Michelle, 3, 43

Abeng, 3 Free Enterprise, 3

Cobham, Rhonda, 174 Watchers & Seekers: Creative

Writing by Black Women, 174 Collins, Merle, 2, 4

Angel, 25-6, 28 'Butterfly Born', 29 The Colour of Forgetting, 2 'Gran', 4 'The Ladies are Upstairs', 29 'Nabel String', 29 Rain Darling, 29 'A Song of Pain', 29 'The Walk', 29

coloniaVcolonialism, 5, 12-15, 23-7, 36, 43, 45-6, 56-7, 63, 75, 79, 87-8, 99, 100, 102, 107-8, 117-18, 121-4, 126, 128-9, 131-2, 135-7, 140, 153, 157, 167 n.28, 174, 180, 189-91, 194, 203, 208, 211

Commonwealth Writers' Prize, 118 Conde, Mary, 168 n.57 n.58

'McGregor as Orpheus: Pauline Melville's "McGregor's Journey'", 168 n.57 n.58

Conrad, Joseph, 54, 153 A/mayer's Folly, 54-5 Heart of Darkness, 153

Cooper, Carolyn, 104, 110 Creole, 20, 43-4, 57, 61, 104, 113,

165, 184-5, 188, 192, 194-5 Cudjoe, Selwyn, 180

Daily Gleaner, 184 Dash, Michael, 167 n.28 Davies, Carole Boyce, 2, 83, 131 DeHaarte, Norma, 1 De Quincey, Thomas, 57

Confessions of an English Opium Eater, 57

diaspora, 35, 78, 84, 114, 126, 128, 153, 156, 160, 203

Dickinson, Emily, 58 Dominica/Dominican, 2, 45, 48,

56, 63, 172 Dominican Republic, 87 Donnell, Alison, 4 Down, Lorna 189, 190 Dujardin, Edouard, 48, 68 n.31,

69 n.34 n.35 Les lauriers sont coupes (The Bays Are Sere), 48, 69 n.35

Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 13 Dunning, R. C., 49

Edgell, Zelma (Zee) Inez Tucker, 4, 184-201

Beka Lamb, 4, 184-93, 197, 199 The Festival of San Joaquin, 199 In Times Like These, 184, 186-7,

193-9 Elrington, Wilfred, 184 England/English, 1, 15, 33, 35, 37,

44, 47, 58-9, 87, 60-4, 128, 147, 152-5, 165, 173, 176, 179-80, 191, 198, 208, 213

Europe/European, 35, 44, 55-6, 66, 136, 147, 152, 165, 167 n.24, n.28, 188, 203

Fido, Elaine Savory, 131 Flanagan, Brenda, 2

You Alone Are Dancing, 2 Ford, Ford Madox, 47-50, 69 n.35

When the Wicked Man, 49 Fuller, Vernella, 2, 4

Going Back Home, 2, 32-7, 39-40 Unlike Normal Women, 35-9 Life as a Colour, 39

230 Index

Garinagu, 188, 195 gender, 15, 16, 50, 58, 98, 137-9,

202 Gibbon, Edward, 19

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 19

Gilligan, Carol, 179 Gilroy, Beryl, 1-3, 11-16, 44

Black Teacher, 16 Boy-Sandwich, 3 Frangipani House, 16 Inkle and Yarico, 3 In Praise of Love and Children, 16 Stedman and Joanna, 3 Ten Nippers, 16

Gilroy, Paul, 3 Glazener, Nancy, 211 Goodison, Lorna, 3, 63-5

Baby Mother and the King of Swords, 3

'Jamaica 1980', 64 'A Jean Rhys Lady', 63-4 'Lullaby for Jean Rhys', 64-5

Graulich and Sisco, 91 Gregg, Veronica, 44 Grenada/Grenadian, 2, 4, 23-30, 83 Griffiths, Gareth, 144 Guatemala, 194, 198 Guy, Rosa, 1 Guyana/Guyanese, 1, 3, 15, 44,

144-9, 151-2, 154, 162-5

Haiti, 87, 162 Harris, Claire, 1, 202 Harris, Wilson, 97, 148, 153, 159,

163 Hemingway, Ernest, 48-9, 70 n.40

The Sun Also Rises, 48-9 Hearne, John, 43 Henfrey, June, 2

Coming Home, 2 Hirsch, Marianne, 209 Hodge, Merle, 4, 131

Crick Crack, Monkey, 4 home, 2, 30, 34, 37, 62-3, 76, 86,

127-8, 130, 138, 158, 209 Howells, Coral Ann, 45, 56, 58, 70

n.49 Hulme, Peter, 43

imperiaVimperialism, 24, 99, 119, 132, 173, 178, 181

Indian, 1, 125, 129, 144-5, 172, 179, 195

Jamaica/Jamaican, 3-4, 15, 17-21, 34-5, 37-8, 40, 43, 59, 61, 64, 100, 102, 105, 108-9, 111-12, 117-19, 124, 126-9, 130-2, 135, 138-9, 141 n.38, 154-5, 160, 165, 184

James, Louis, 71 n.73 Jameson, Frederick, 122 Jin, Meiling, 1 Jones, Gayl, 3

Corregidora, 3 Joyce, James, 48, 69 n.35

Ulysses, 48, 69 n.35

Kincaid, Jamaica, 2-3, 71 n.73, 123, 145, 165, 172-83, 198

Annie John, 3, 71 n.73, 172-4, 178-80, 198

The Autobiography of My Mother, 172-3, 181

At the Bottom of the River, 172-3, 177

Lucy, 172-80 A Small Place, 165, 172-3, 179-80

Kipling, Rudyard, 56, 108 Kim, 56 'The White Man's Burden', 108

Kubitschek, Missy Dehn, 86

Lamb, Charles, 14, 44 Lamming, George, 26-7, 123, 165 Latin American Research Review,

184 Levy, Andrea, 4

Every Light in the House Burnin', 4

Never Far From Nowhere, 4 London, 26-7, 29-30, 126, 147,

154, 160, 165-6, 184, 194-7 Lonsdale, Thorunn, 4 Lorde, Audre, 1

Zami: A New Spelling of my Name, 1

Loriggio, Francesco, 214

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Marshall, Paule, 1-4, 75-96 Brown Girl, Brownstones, 75-8,

91-2 The Chosen Place, The Timeless

People, 78-83, 92 Daughters, 2, 75, 86-92 Merle: a novella and other stories,

3 Praisesong for the Widow, 2, 83-6 Reena and Other Stories, 92 Soul Clap Hands and Sing, 92

Marson, Una, 27 Maupassant, Guy de, 56, 70 n.49,

71 n.71 Fort Comme La Mort, 56 'Mademoiselle Fifi', 70 n.49

Mayas, 188, 195 McNeill, Anthony, 65

'The White Shell', 65 Melville, Pauline, 1, 5, 58, 144-71

'About That Two Pounds, Mrs Parrish', 148, 153, 159

'The Conversion of Millicent Vernon', 145-6, 152-3, 155, 160

'A Disguised Land', 58-9, 153-6

'Eat Labba and Drink Creek Water', 146-8, 159-60, 163-5

'The Girl with the Celestial Limb', 145, 153, 162

'I Do Not Take Messages From Dead People', 145, 149, 151

'The Iron and the Radio Have Gone', 148, 152-3

'McGregor's Journey', 153, 155-7, 159, 168, n.57

'A Quarrelsome Man', 159-60 Shape-shifter, 5, 144-70 'The Truth is in the Clothes',

145-6, 148-9, 153, 155, 157-8, 161-2

The Ventriloquist's Tale, 5 'You Left the Door Open', 145-6,

149, 153, 158, 161-2 Mercer, Kobena, 139 mestizo, 188, 195, 199 migration, 2, 26, 35-6 Minh-ha, Trinh T., 185-7

Mittelholzer, Edgar, 13 Corentyne Thunder, 13

modernism, 48, 172-3 Mordecai, Pamela, 173 Morrell, Carol, 202 Morrison, Toni, 3, 190

Beloved, 3 The Bluest Eye, 190

mulatto, 188

Naipaul, V.S., 167, n.24 A House for Mr Biswas, 167,

n.24 Miguel Street, 167 n.24

Narain, Denise deCaires, 4, 43 Newman, Judie, 66 n.9 Newson, Adele S., 5 New Yorker, 172-3, 178 New York Times Book Review, 181 Nichols, Grace, 1, 148

obeah, 60, 145, 153 O'Callaghan, Evelyn, 43, 107, 137,

145-6, 165 O'Crovley, Father Pedro Alonso, 2

pania, 188, 192 Patterson, Orlando, 3 Patteson, Richard, 129 Philip, Marlene Norbese, 2, 4, 204

Harriet's Daughter, 4 Pollard, Velma, 2, 3, 83

Considering Women, 17 'Gran', 3 Homestretch, 2, 21 Karl and Other Stories, 17, 19

post-colonial, 98-102, 119, 122, 128, 131-3, 135, 139, 140, 179, 203, 208, 214

post-modernism, 133, 135, 173 Pound, Ezra, 44 Powell, Patricia, 3

Me Dying Trial, 3

Ramchand, Kenneth, 43, 65 Reddock, Rhonda, 142 n.38 Rhys, Jean, 2, 4, 43-74, 119, 173

After Leaving Mr Mackenzie, 54-6 'Again the Antilles', 44-7

232 Index

Rhys - continued 'The Day They Burned the

Books', 56 'La Grosse Fifi', 50-3 'Let Them Call It Jazz', 58-9 Quartet, 47-50, 69 n.34 n.35 Smile Please: An Unfinished

Autobiography, 69 n.33 'Temps Perdi', 72 n.91 Voyage in the Dark, 2, 48, 53-4,

56, 62, 69 n.34, 71 n.73, 72 n.91

Wide Sargasso Sea, 43-4, 56-7, 59-65; see also 66 n.11

Richardson, Elaine Potter, see Kincaid, Jamaica

Riley, Joan, 32 Rosella, Mireille, 203 Roth, Walter, 144

Enquiry into the Animism and Folklore of the Guiana Indians, 144

Sandiford, Keith, 85 Scarboro, Ann Armstrong, 84 Schine, Cathleen, 181 Seaforth, Sybil, 198

Growing Up with Miss Milly, 198 Selvon, Sam, 15, 26, 150, 167 n.24

Moses Ascending, 150, 167 n.24 Senior, Olive, 3, 61-5, 71 n.73,

117-43 J.scot', 126-7 Arrival of the Snake-Woman, 117,

124, 128 J.rrival of the Snake-Woman',

124-6, 128-9, 133 'Ballad', 124, 132 'The Boy Who Loved Ice Cream',

119-20 'Bright Thursdays', 134-5 'The Case Against the Queen',

127-8 'Colonial Girls School', 117 'Confirmation Day', 122-3 Discerner of Hearts, 118, 127 'Do Angels Wear Brassieres?'

123-4 'The Glass Bottom Boat', 137

'Lily, Lily', 126, 132, 136-7 'Love Orange', 119-21 'Meditation on Red', 62-4, 66 Summer Lightning, 117-19, 122,

126 'Summer Lightning', 124 'The Tenantry of Birds, 137-8 'The Two Grandmothers', 130,

132-3 'The View From the Terrace',

137 'Zig Zag', 135-6

Shakespeare, William, 14, 44, 46-7, 117

Shea, Renee Hausmann, 185, 194 Shewcharan, Narmala, 1 Shinebourne, Jan, 4

Timepiece, 4 Skow, John, 181 slaves/slavery, 3, 27, 34, 36, 54,

61, 82, 84, 89-90, 155, 157, 161

Smart, Patricia, 206 Smith, Barbara, 99 Smith, Lilian, 13 Sous les verrous, 49 Staley, Thomas, 50-1 Sturgess, Charlotte, 5

Tennyson, Alfred, 19 Thomas, Elean, 59, 61, 72 n.91

The Last Room, 59-61, 72 n.91 Tiffin, Helen, 115 n.27 Time, 181 Tobago, 2, 131 Transatlantic Review, 48-9 Trinidad, 1-2, 43, 131, 202, 214 Trow, George, 172

United States of America, 3, 13, 16, 24-5, 29-30, 75, 77, 80, 86, 88-92, 127, 131-2, 172, 176-8, 185

Walcott, Derek, 63 'Jean Rhys', 63

Walker, Alice, 114 Walker, Margaret, 3

Jubilee, 3

Wasafiri, 43 Washington, Booker T., 13 Welsh, Sarah Lawson, 5 West-Indies/West-Indian, 15, 33,

45, 78, 86, 104, 111-12, 137, 146, 151, 167 n.24, 194

West Indies Federation, 1 Wilentz, Gay, 185 Williams, Aubrey, 162

Index

Williams, Sherley Anne, 3 Dessa Rose, 3

Willis, Susan, 78, 86 Wilson, Betty, 173 Wiser, William, 48

Zola, Emile, 53 Nana, 53-4

zombification, 107-8, 110

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