"Selwyn Cudjoe has made an important contribution to the field of Caribbean studies in editing Caribbean Women Writers. In 1988 he organized a conference as Wellesley College that brought together fifty women authors and critics, mainly Anglophone, to discuss their contemporary literature. The resultant volume provides a rich source for understanding why the authors write and how the critics interpret their works with respect to the Caribbean cultural setting."--World Literature Today

"This landmark volume analyzes Caribbean feminist traditions, giving voice to writers' own statements. . . . [These statements are] particularly useful, . . . remarkable examples of theorizing the politics of identities, language uses, and colonial education systems through autobiography and the personal voice."--Choice

"Anthologies are by nature ambitious endeavors. To represent a variety of styles, points of view, and subject matter in one volume is not an easy task--particularly when the subject has only recently gained popularity and still lacks a full critical literature. Caribbean Women Writers triumphs over those odds, offering a lively dialogue between critics and authors that works to formulate an emerging literary tradition. Cudjoe's presentation emphasizes the active and cooperative elements of such a tradition, one shaped by what Laure Niesen de Abruna terms 'alienation within alienation.' He juxtaposes essays or review of a writer's work with the author's own explanation of the forces that drive her to write."--San Francisco Review of Books