Touching The Body: History, Language and African-Caribbean Women’s Writing is the first critical volume to contextualise and historicise the Caribbean woman as a literary figure who breaks a significant pattern of literary silence informed by Atlantic slavery and its aftermath.

Interrogating the emergent literature as creolised artefacts of Caribbean and diaspora culture, Joan Anim-Addo argues for carnivalised strategies in critical dialogue that achieve rich and nuanced readings of the recently-published novels. Texts closely read include fiction by Erna Brodber, Merle Collins, Zee Edgell, Beryl Gilroy, Merle Hodge, Joan Riley and Sylvia Wynter.

Touching The Body applies challenging theory with rigour to provide clear insight into and keen analysis of text and culture making this an invaluable volume for lay readers, students, researchers and academics.