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 literature: the plantation, maroon society, colonial education, rural and urban life, women s changing roles in the modern Caribbean, exile, and the diaspora. Works include Jamaican author James Carnegie s powerful novella "Wages Paid" about a day in the life of a slave plantation, a selection by noted Guadeloupan...