Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction
by Nalo Hopkinson (Editor, Contributor)
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The lushness of language and the landscape, wild contrasts, and pure storytelling magic abound in this anthology of Caribbean writing. Steeped in the tradition of fabulism, where the irrational and inexplicable coexist with the realities of daily life, the stories in this collection are infused with a vitality and freshness that most writing traditions have long ago lost. From spectral slaving ships to women who shed their skin at night to become owls, stories from writers such as Jamaica show more Kincaid, Marcia Douglas, Ian MacDonald, and Kamau Brathwaite pulse with rhythms, visions, and the tortured history of this spiritually rich region of the world. show lessTags
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- 2000
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- Fiction and Literature, Fantasy
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- 813.01089729 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English By type Short fiction By Region Central America
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- PR9205.8 .W47 — Language and Literature English English Literature English literature: Provincial, local, etc.
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