The Whistling Bird: Women Writers of the Caribbean (Three Continents Press)

An Anthology By Women Writers From The Caribbean. Haiti's Edwidge Danticat Contributes Night Women, A Story About Prostitutes, And Jamaica's Carmen Tipling Contributes Lunchtime Revolution, A Play On A Coup D'etat By Amateurs. Excerpt From The Autobiography Of My Mother / Jamaica Kincaid -- I Do Not Know My Father / Esther Phillips -- Longtime Story / Zee Edgell -- Song For Mother Earth = Kantika Pa Mama Tera ; The Promise = Promesa ; Old Lady = Habai / Nydia Ecury -- The Child's Return ; Love For An Island ; Miss Garthside's Greenhouse / Phyllis Allfrey -- Smile Please / Christabel Laronde -- Caribman ; Blacksister ; C'est Juste Une Guêpe ; Maroussia / Gilda Nassief -- The Whistling Bird ; Excerpt From Wide Sargasso Sea / Jean Rhys ; Madelene / Merle Collins ; Wayang Kulit / Maryse Condé -- Excerpt From The Bridge Of Beyond / Simone Schwarz-bart -- Excerpt From Frangipani House / Beryl Gilroy -- Web Of Kin ; We The Women ; These Islands / Grace Nichols -- Night Women / Edwidge Danticat -- Candy Seller ; Bans O'ooman! / Louise Bennett -- Excerpt From Myal / Erna Brodber -- Excerpt From Abeng / Michelle Cliff -- Burnt Hill / Christine Craig -- Mulatta Song ; Missing The Mountains / Lorna Goodison -- Excerpt From Pocomania ; There Will Come A Time / Una Marson -- Marine Turtle ; Mule / Velma Pollard -- Discerner Of Hearts / Olive Senior -- Lunchtime Revolution / Carmen Tipling -- Sweat, Sugar And Blood / Suzanne Dracius -- Eye-opener / Ana Lydia Vega -- Excerpt From When I Was Puerto Rican / Esmeralda Santiago -- The Tick-tick Bicycle / Madeline Coopsammy -- Inez / Merle Hodge -- Excerpt From Bruised Hibiscus / Elizabeth Nunez -- Arise, My Love / Jan Williams. Edited By Elaine Campbell, Pierrette Frickey. A Three Continents Book.