In Praise of New Travelers: Reading Caribbean Migrant Women's Writing

Approaching postcolonial theory through cultural analysis, this book offers an accessible and concrete appraisal of current developments in postcolonial criticism. Detailed readings of a range of Anglophone Caribbean migrant women's texts from the late 1980s and 1990s lead to sharp insights into three issues that are crucial to an understanding of the field: place, voice, and silence.

The discussion of these issues allows us to trace current feminist, postmodern, and postcolonial debates ab...