If I Could Write This in Fire: An Anthology of Literature from the Caribbean

by Pamela María Smorkaloff

In this unprecedented collection, Pamela Maria Smorkaloff brings together fiction from the French-, Spanish-, and English-speaking Caribbean, much of it translated here for the first time. The book's wide-ranging and diverse selections address the central themes of the region's the plantation, maroon society, colonial education, rural and urban life, women's changing roles in the modern Caribbean, exile, and the diaspora. Together these pieces reveal to readers a rich and lyric literary tradition.

Genres: Fiction, Anthologies

Hardcover

First published November 1, 1994