In 1970, Heinemann established the Caribbean Writers Series. New writing has explored not only the range and variety of Caribbean
cultures and traditions, but also the experience of multicultural life on immigrants to other countries. Today's Caribbean Writers
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Aunt Jen
Paulette Ramsay
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Aunt Jen is a deft, heart-wrenching, instructively imaginative and ultimately timeless representation of an intimate corner of Jamaican social history. —Edward Baugh Sunshine, a young Jamaican girl, is desperate to know and understand her identity. Written as a series of letters to her absent mother, Aunt Jen traces the changing attitudes of a child entering adulthood as she begins to realize and accept the truth behind her mother’s departure. A painfully...
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The Girl Who Can
Ama Ata Aidoo
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In The Girl Who Can , the irrepressible Ama Ata Aidoo looks at the roles and rules, and the games people find themselves playing, often unwillingly. She analyses African women's struggle to find their rightful place in society. Her stories raise issues of choice and conflict, teasing about the issues with disarming frankness. How do people behave in cross-cultural relationships? In the modern world, where a plastic label identifies us, what is our identity? Will African women be in the...
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The Shadow of Imana
Véronique Tadjo
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Reflections on the Rwandan Genocide
Along with nine other African Writers, Veronique Tadjo was invited to visit Rwanda to bear witness to the genocide that took place in 1994 – wiping out one million Tutsis and moderate Hutus during a hundred days of barbaric violence. A poet and a storyteller, the author consistently achieves the right tone that challenges our preconceptions. From the unexpurgated story of a young woman reliving the horrors of the massacre to dialogues between...
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Time and the River
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