Working Miracles: Women's Lives in the English-Speaking Caribbean

By Olive Senior

Book Overview

Intended as an introductory sourcebook, Olive Senior provides a background to Caribbean literature, politics and society.

This text takes a multidisciplinary approach to the study of women and gender issues in the Caribbean. Olive Senior, using her imaginative skills as a poet, has written a readable books based on a substantial academic examinationof women's lives and work in fourteen countries of the Caribbean. In addition she uses examples from literature and popular culture, adn the voices of the women themselves.

Caribbean: ISER, University of the West Indies

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0852552084
• ISBN13: 9780852552087
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: James Currey
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.4"