Description: Calling attention to the mark of black feminism on the literary output of Caribbean writers of this period, Lambert addresses the gap between women's active participation in Caribbean revolution versus the lack of recognition they continue to receive.
Review Quotes:
The Grenada Revolution is a watershed moment in Caribbean history and one with a continuing and underdocumented aftermath. Lambert's is the first book-length work of literary criticism to focus centrally on gender in the revolution, treating gender and sexuality as crucial dimensions of world making as well as of analysis, critique, remembrance, and rebuilding. Lambert brings into the mainstream discussion several unpublished, important, and understudied texts--notably those by Walcott, Salkey, and Purcell--the significance of which is hard to overstate.
--Shalini Puri, University of Pittsburgh, author of The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present