Write a critical/analytical essay discussing the challenges women face in the English-speaking Caribbean and their ways of coping and surviving as evidenced in the stories assigned for this class. Do not include references to Annie John or Crick Crack Monkey.
Nunez, Elizabeth and Jennifer Sparrow. Stories from Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers at Home and Abroad. Seal/Avalon, 2006. 10: 1-58005-139-1. This is an anthology and contains stories by all the writers to be discussed.
Make a plan and Identify at least three challenges that Caribbean women face as evidenced in the stories you have read. Cite at least two stories for each challenge. Discuss the ways women cope and succeed as evidenced in the stories you select.
1. Class and color discrimination: Senior, Marshall, Nourbese Philip, Edgell, Hopkinson.
2. Gender discrimination: McWatt, Hemans, Brand
3. Limited economic options for women in the Caribbean: Leach, Brand, Powell
4. Police corruption and violence against women: Mordecai, Cezair-Thompson
5. Alienation experienced by white Caribbean women: Rhys, Cliff
6. Struggles for educational opportunities for female children: Collins, Pollard, Hemans, Cliff
7. The consequences of emigration ( leaving the Caribbean): Levy and Marshall
8. Coping with the social, psychological, economic effects of the history of slavery and colonization: Melville, Hopkinson
must included in text citations from book.
