LAURA NIESEN DE ABRUNA Ithaca CollegeMERLE COLLINS WriterALISON DONNELL Nottingham Trent UniversityVERNELLA FULLER WriterBERYL GILROY WriterHEIDI SLETTEDAHL Central Lancashire UniversityDENISE DECAIRES NARAIN University of SussexADELE S. NEWSON Florida International UniversityVELMA POLLARD WriterCHARLOTTE STURGESS University of ToursSARAH LAWSON WELSH University College of Ripon and York

• Introduction Reflections; Beryl Gilroy The Most Important Reason I Write; Velma Pollard Writing Fiction, Writing Reality; Merle Collins The Development of My Art as a Fiction Writer; Vernella Fuller Literary Allusion in the Fiction of Jean Rhys; Thorunn Lonsdale Perceptions of Place: Geopolitical and Cultural Positioning in Paule Marshall's Novels; Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson The Body of the Woman in the Body of the Text: the Novels of Erna Brodber; Denise deCaires Narain The Short Fiction of Olive Senior; Alison Donnell Pauline Melville's Shape-Shifting Fictions; Sarah Lawson Welsh Jamaica Kincaid's Writing and the Maternal-Colonial Matrix; Laura Niesen de Abruna The Fiction of Zee Edgell; Adele S. Newson Dionne Brand: Writing the Margins; Charlotte Sturgess Fiction by Caribbean Women Writers Further Reading Index Acknowledgements

The volume reflects the growing, well-deserved interdisciplinary interest in the region. Choice

LAURA NIESEN DE ABRUNA Ithaca CollegeMERLE COLLINS WriterALISON DONNELL Nottingham Trent UniversityVERNELLA FULLER WriterBERYL GILROY WriterHEIDI SLETTEDAHL Central Lancashire UniversityDENISE DECAIRES NARAIN University of SussexADELE S. NEWSON Florida International UniversityVELMA POLLARD WriterCHARLOTTE STURGESS University of ToursSARAH LAWSON WELSH University College of Ripon and York

• Introduction Reflections; Beryl Gilroy The Most Important Reason I Write; Velma Pollard Writing Fiction, Writing Reality; Merle Collins The Development of My Art as a Fiction Writer; Vernella Fuller Literary Allusion in the Fiction of Jean Rhys; Thorunn Lonsdale Perceptions of Place: Geopolitical and Cultural Positioning in Paule Marshall's Novels; Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson The Body of the Woman in the Body of the Text: the Novels of Erna Brodber; Denise deCaires Narain The Short Fiction of Olive Senior; Alison Donnell Pauline Melville's Shape-Shifting Fictions; Sarah Lawson Welsh Jamaica Kincaid's Writing and the Maternal-Colonial Matrix; Laura Niesen de Abruna The Fiction of Zee Edgell; Adele S. Newson Dionne Brand: Writing the Margins; Charlotte Sturgess Fiction by Caribbean Women Writers Further Reading Index Acknowledgements

The volume reflects the growing, well-deserved interdisciplinary interest in the region. Choice

LAURA NIESEN DE ABRUNA Ithaca CollegeMERLE COLLINS WriterALISON DONNELL Nottingham Trent UniversityVERNELLA FULLER WriterBERYL GILROY WriterHEIDI SLETTEDAHL Central Lancashire UniversityDENISE DECAIRES NARAIN University of SussexADELE S. NEWSON Florida International UniversityVELMA POLLARD WriterCHARLOTTE STURGESS University of ToursSARAH LAWSON WELSH University College of Ripon and York

• Introduction Reflections; Beryl Gilroy The Most Important Reason I Write; Velma Pollard Writing Fiction, Writing Reality; Merle Collins The Development of My Art as a Fiction Writer; Vernella Fuller Literary Allusion in the Fiction of Jean Rhys; Thorunn Lonsdale Perceptions of Place: Geopolitical and Cultural Positioning in Paule Marshall's Novels; Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson The Body of the Woman in the Body of the Text: the Novels of Erna Brodber; Denise deCaires Narain The Short Fiction of Olive Senior; Alison Donnell Pauline Melville's Shape-Shifting Fictions; Sarah Lawson Welsh Jamaica Kincaid's Writing and the Maternal-Colonial Matrix; Laura Niesen de Abruna The Fiction of Zee Edgell; Adele S. Newson Dionne Brand: Writing the Margins; Charlotte Sturgess Fiction by Caribbean Women Writers Further Reading Index Acknowledgements

The volume reflects the growing, well-deserved interdisciplinary interest in the region. Choice