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THE OXFORD BOOK OF CARIBBEAN SHORT STORIES.
by Brown, Stewart and John Wickham, editors
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers with self flaps (usual toning to pages, crease to lower corner of front cover, some cre
- Seller
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About This Item
Oxford & NY: : Oxford University Press,, (1999). First edition -. Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers with self flaps (usual toning to pages, crease to lower corner of front cover, some creasing to spine). . First printing, a trade paperback. Anthology collecting 52 stories of pan-Caribbean short fiction, arranged chronologically by the author's date of birth. Includes authors from the English, French, Spanish, and Dutch-speaking Caribbean. Among the stories are those by prominent anglophone writers like Jean Rhys, V.S. Naipual, Samuel Selvon and E.A. Markham and those from French, Spanish, and Dutch writers like Alejo Carpentier, Ren Depestre, and Thea Doelwijt. The new generation, represented, by such writers as Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid and Patrick Chamoiseau, points the way forward for Caribbean writing into the twenty-first century. Introduction by Stewart Brown. Biographical notes on contributors. xxxiii, 476 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88780
- Title
- THE OXFORD BOOK OF CARIBBEAN SHORT STORIES.
- Author
- Brown, Stewart and John Wickham, editors
- Format/Binding
- First edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers with self flaps (usual toning to pages, crease to lower corner of front cover, some cre
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press,
- Place of Publication
- Oxford & NY:
- Date Published
- (1999)
- Keywords
- anthology,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Caribbean literature and history;
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