In Centre of Remembrance: Memory and Caribbean Women’s Literature, Joan Anim-Addo offers an important collection of critical essays, which engages with issues of collective and individual memory of crucial significance to this corpus of writing. Among the texts explored is writing by Erna Brodber, Lorna Goodison, Georgina Herrera, Merle Hodge, Jamaica Kincaid, Michele Lacrosil, Elma Napier, Joan Riley and Olive Senior. This comprehensive anthology brings together analyses presenting multiple perspectives from scholars based in British, American, Caribbean and European universities.

It is the first major volume of essays to focus exclusively on the scope of memory in relation to this literature. Centre of Remembrance: Memory and Caribbean Women¹s Literature will be of particular interest to those concerned with developments in the field of women’s writing and specifically Caribbean women.

Contributors: Alba Ambert, Paulette Brown-Hinds, Mary Condé, Giovanna Covi, Alison Donnell, Maria Cristina Fumagalli, Beryl Gilroy, Conrad James, Paula E. Morgan, Denise deCaires Narain, Evelyn O’Callaghan, Beverley Ormerod, Sarah Lawson Welsh and M. Nourbese Philip.


Joan Anim-Addo is Head of the Centre for Caribbean Studies, and lectures in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London.