ISBN The Oxford of Caribbean Short Stories book 512 pages

The Caribbean is the source of one of the richest most accessible and yet technically adventurous traditions of contemporary world literature. This collection of Caribbean short stories is pan-Caribbean including stories from the four main languages of the region: English Spanish French and Dutch. Stories by major figures in the English language tradition such as V. S. Naipaul Sam Sevlon and Jean Rhys are set alongside their Spanish- and French-speaking contemporaries like Alejo Carpentier Jan Bosh and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Their work in all its diversity of style theme and linguistic energy provides a context for the work of an exciting new generation of Caribbean writers like Edwidge Danticat Robert Antoni Astrid Roemer and Jamaica Kincaid. A celebration of regional creativity the collection contains sufficient surprises to keep even the most avid student of West Indian writing turning the pages while reminding readers that the Caribbean is a multilingual multicultural space.