The haunted tropics : Caribbean ghost stories /

"This book brings together some of the region's leading contemporary authors, from the anglophone, francophone and hispanophone Caribbean, as well as the United States and Canada, and constitutes a unique, transcultural anthology in which living authors evoke the dead, the undead and the d...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Munro, Martin (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jamaica ; Barbados ; Trinidad and Tobago : The University of the West Indies Press, [2015]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : The haunted Caribbean / Martin Munro
  • The obeahman, obeahed / Maryse Condé
  • Dawn of the dread / Geoffrey Philip
  • Travelling / Patricia Powell
  • Ghost children / Helen Klonaris
  • The voyage of the centipede / Gisèle Pineau
  • The wedding photograph / Lawrence Scott
  • Anansi / Fred D'Aguiar
  • The Bonnaire silk cotton tree / Shani Mootoo
  • Awakening / Roberto Fernandez
  • Gros islet / Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
  • Blue crabs / Alake Pilgrim
  • Flavius and Wasa / Earl Lovelace
  • Fantòm / Madison Smartt Bell
  • The twilight of Daisy Powell / Marvin Victor
  • The country of green mansions (from a novel in progress) / Keith Jardim.