Reading/Speaking/Writing the Mother Text; Essays on Caribbean Women's Writing

?We expected it because we needed it and, finally, it is here?an engaging book on the poetics of motherhood and maternity in Caribbean women?s writing that gives mothers in Caribbean culture not only the voice they have been denied, but also fuller-clearer reflections in the mirror of Caribbean culture. The absence of both voice and visibility birthed the poetics which the book explores with brilliance. A mustread, the book inspires a second-read and will give birth to new books. That the book is finally here is cause for celebration.?
?Gloria Wade Gayles, Founding Director, The SIS Oral History Proj- ect and RESONANCE in LEADS, The Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement

?Reading/Speaking/Writing the Mother Text provides an important intervention in Caribbean women?s literary scholarship by focusing on maternal writings from the region. The diversity of authors, nations, cultures, and linguistic groups covered is an asset that makes this work useful for scholars and in the classroom. This book begins an overdue conversation about how representations of motherhood and family in literary works by Caribbean women connect issues of history, race, memory, nation, and violence.?
?Jocelyn Fenton Stitt, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan

?Insightful and thoughtful, this collection fills the maternal void left by recent studies in Caribbean women?s writing. It not only addresses major concerns in feminist maternal scholarship by affording a critical textual
discussion of different themes and literary genres but also enriches our understanding of diversity in the Caribbean context by adding more discussions in light of a wider spectrum of languages, cultures and racial differences, which none of the previous works is able to offer.?
?Yilin Yu, author of Mo