Border Crossings

by Roberts, Nicole; Walcott-hackshaw, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9789766402518
• ISBN10: 9766402515
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-12-01
• Publisher: Longleaf Pr

Author Biography

Nicole Roberts is Lecturer, Spanish and Hispanic Literature, Department of Liberal Arts, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago. She has published in Contexto: Revista Anual de Estudios Literarios, Journal of West Indian Literature, Small Axe and Poltico y Cultura. Her most recent publication is Main Themes in Twentieth-Century Afro-Hispanic Poetry: A Literary Sociology. Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw is Senior Lecturer, French and Francophone Literature, Department of Liberal Arts, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago. She has published in Callaloo and Small Axe and has co-edited, with Martin Munro, two books on the Haitian Revolution: Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution and Its Cultural Aftershocks and Echoes of the Haitian Revolution 1804-2004. Her first collection of short stories, Pour Taxis Facing North, was published in 2007.

Table of Contents

Border Crossings: An Introduction	p. vii
Cruces fronterizos: Introduction	p. xv
Passages de frontieres: Introduction	p. xvi
Olive Senior (Jamaica)
Bright Thursdays	p. 1
Jueves soleados	p. 17
Les beaux jeudis	p. 35
Shani Mootoo (Trinidad)
The Upside-downness of the World as It Unfolds	p. 53
Las vueltas que da la vida en su discurrir	p. 66
Le monde à l'envers	p. 81
Gisèle Pineau (Guadeloupe)
Amélie et les anolis	p. 97
Amélie and the anolis	p. 109
Amélie y los anolis	p. 122
Yanick Lahens (Haiti)
Les Survivants	p. 135
The Survivors	p. 157
Los Sobrevivientes	p. 180
Carmen Lugo Filippi (Puerto Rico)
Entre condicionales e indicativos	p. 203
Between conditionals and indicatives	p. 213
Entre conditionnels et indicatifs	p. 224
Mirta Yáñez (Cuba)
Kid Bururú y los canibales	p. 235
Kid Bururú and the cannibals	p. 242
Kid Bururú et les canibales	p. 249
Contributors/Colaboradores/Contributeurs	p. 257
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