Table of Contents

Introduction     
Acknowledgments
     Tetiyette and the Devil / Anonymous
     Little Cog-burt / Phyllis Shand Allfrey
     Cotton Candy / Dora Alonso
     See Me in Me Benz An T'ing: Like the Lady Who Lived on That Isle Remote / Hazel D. Campbell
     They Called Her Aurora (A Passion for Donna Summer) / Aida Cartagena Portalatin
     Columba / Michelle Cliff
     A Pottage of Lentils / Marie-Therese Colimon-Hall
     Three Women in Manhattan / Maryse Conde
     Hair / Hilma Contreras
     Piano-Bar / Liliane Devieux
     Barred: Trinidad 1987 / Ramabai Espinet
     The Poisoned Story / Rosario Ferre
     Cocuyo Flower / Magali Garcia Ramis
     How to Gather the Shadows of the Flowers / Angela Hernandez
     Opera Station. Six in the Evening. For Months... / Jeanne Hyvrard
     Girl / Jamaica Kincaid
     No Dust Is Allowed in This House / Olga Nolla
     Widow's Walk / Opal Palmer Adisa
     Parable II / Velma Pollard
     Red Flower / Paulette Poujol-Oriol
     The Day They Burned the Books / Jean Rhys
     Lola or the Song of Spring / Astrid Roemer
     Brights Thursdays / Olive Senior
     ADJ, Inc. / Ana Lydia Vega
     Of Nuns and Punishments / Bea Vianen
     Passport to Paradise / Myriam Warner-Vieyra
     Of Natural Causes / Mirta Yanez
     Selected Bibliography / Olga Torres-Seda

About the Author

Carmen C. Esteves is assistant professor in the department of Romance languages at Lehman College-CUNY. She has translated into English works by Latin American women such as Magali Garcia Ramis and Elena Poniatowska.

Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert is associate professor of Puerto Rican studies at Lehman College-CUNY. She has published many articles on Caribbean writers, and has translated many works into English, including Love (Amour) by the Haitian writer Marie Chauvet.

Reviews

Unique... a wonderful collection that will receive much attention.
*University of California, Berkeley*

The panorama of insights and visions is vast... the context of women's writings is a broadening link, connecting these writers with their counterparts in other cultures around the world.
*Gregory Rabassa*

Provides wonderful insights into writing by women from the Caribbean.
*The University of West Indies*

Writers from Trinidad, Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Surinam, Puerto Rico, Antigua, Guadeloupe, and Dominica are presented in this collection of 27 short stories. The biographical notes and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources will help acquaint the reader with these talented writers, some of whom have received international acclaim and some of whom are unknown outside their native countries. The anthology provides a rich variety, as the editors purposely selected stories that convey the ``broadest spectrum of themes, styles, and techniques.'' The critical introduction offers an analysis of Caribbean women's short stories. Until now, all the critical attention has centered on Caribbean women novelists. The editors also make a significant contribution in translating stories that were not originally written in English. See also Scents of Wood and Silence: Short Stories by Latin American Women Writers and other related anthologies reviewed on p.180.--Ed.-- Joanne Snapp, Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Richmond

Unique... a wonderful collection that will receive much attention. -- Barbara Christian * University of California, Berkeley *
The panorama of insights and visions is vast... the context of women's writings is a broadening link, connecting these writers with their counterparts in other cultures around the world. -- Gregory Rabassa
Provides wonderful insights into writing by women from the Caribbean. -- J. Michael Dash * The University of West Indies *