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List of reviews for Beryl Agatha Gilroy
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Phyliss Briggs-Emanuel Beryl Gilroy, Sunlight on Sweet Water The Caribbean Writer
Review with synopses examing Gilroy’s ability to interweave major Caribbean themes into personal, individual narratives
Chris Searle 'Courageous, witty and committed': Sunlight on Sweet Water Morning Star
Review extolling Gilroy’s sense of humanity and community, and pointing to her preoccupation with childhood. The review also deals with Gilroy's Black Teacher
Phyliss Briggs-Emanuel Beryl Gilroy, Gather the Faces The Caribbean Writer
Review with synopses, highlighting the optimism of Gather the Faces and the skilful and meticulous research needed to recreate the old Caribbean legend of Inkle and Yarico
Mary Conde Beryl Gilroy Gather the Faces Mango Season
Review with synopsis, particularly admiring the language
Sandra Courtman Beryl Gilroy, In Praise of Love and Children Mango Season
Review with synopsis praising the novel for providing a female perspective on Caribbean migration to Britain in the Fifties (cf Sam Selvon The Lonely Londoners)
Phyliss Briggs-Emanuel Beryl Gilroy, In Praise of Love and Children The Caribbean Writer
Review with synopses examing Gilroy’s ability to interweave major Caribbean themes into personal, individual narratives
Jeremy Poynting 'A Writer at the Height of her Powers: Three Recent Novels by Beryl Gilroy'
Review deals with humour as a 'Caribbean survival mechanism', Gilroy’s pragmatic optimism, the importance of community, and her ability to place characters in race and history whilst also allowing them to be universally human
Adele S. Newson Beryl Gilroy. In Praise of Love and Children World Literature Today
Review with synopsis, focusing in detail how the female main character, an ‘exile’ in England, draws spiritual strength from memories of a community of ‘yard’ women home in Guyana, and the necessity of community over the individual
Phyliss Briggs-Emanuel Beryl Gilroy, Inkle and Yarico The Caribbean Writer
Review with synopses, highlighting the optimism of Gather the Faces and the skilful and meticulous research needed to recreate the old Caribbean legend of Inkle and Yarico
Chris Searle ‘Baring the past for the present’: Inkle and Yarico Morning Star
Review focusing on Inkle as representative colonial mercantilist villain set against humane Carib captors
Adele S. Newson Beryl Gilroy Inkle & Yarico World Literature Today
Review with synopsis that discusses the unreliable narrator and the work as metaphor for mercantile European expansion
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