ANCESTROLOGIC AND CARIBBEAN BLUES PB Canada multitudinous influences that converged to

multitudinous influences that converged to catapult them onto the world's stage and into the annals of history

which then suddenly take on new significance

-John Mukum Mbacku

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ANCESTROLOGIC AND CARIBBEAN BLUES PB Canada multitudinous influences that converged toBeyond the Canebrakes: Caribbean Women Writers in Canada is a text of fifteen essays and two interviews that examine the work of West Indian women writers living in Canada. The essays examine the work of literary artists Claire Harris, Olive Senior, Lillian Allen, Afua Cooper, Dionne Brand, M. Nourbese Philip, Nalo Hopkinson, Pamela Mordecai, and Makeda Silvera as an integral not marginal element of the Canadian and world literature canons. The