Opal Palmer Adisa
Caribbean Erotic

Caribbean Erotic is a revealing, wide-ranging and in-depth exploration of the many facets of the erotic in contemporary Caribbean literature. It includes poetry, short fiction and critical essays; work that celebrates desire, work that depicts realistically the psychology of, for instance, a woman whose desperate wish is that her abusive husband still desires her, and work that explores the role of fantasy in the erotic. Infidelity, self-respect, rape, self-love, lust and child-birth are other themes which are interpreted in the collection with honesty and insight.
As an anthology, Caribbean Erotic is intended both to arouse pleasure and generate thought about what is, despite the touristic stereotypes, still a conflicted area of Caribbean literature and culture.

Contributors:

Opal Palmer Adisa
Apanaki
Marion Bethel
K. Brisbane
Nicole Cage-Florentiny
Christian Campbell
Yolanda Rivera Castillo
Chandis
Colin Channer
Leroy Clarke
Afua Cooper
Edwidge Danticat
Carole Boyce Davies
teenah ddan
Marcia Douglas
Suzanne Dracius
Aurora Ferguson
Jose Angel Figueroa
Ken Forde
Glyne Griffith
Jacqueline Johnson
Anthony Joseph
Rosamond King
Helen Klonaris
Randi Gray Kristensen
Christine Lewis
Audre Lorde
Lelawatee Manoo-Rahming
Shara McCallum
Stacey Miller
Nancy Morejon
Courttia Newland
Angelique Nixon
Paula Obè
Geoffrey Philp
Michelle Remy
B. Alison Richards
Luis Pulido Ritter
Sandra García Rivera
Colin Robinson
Kim Robinson
Maria Soledad Rodriguez
Linda M. Rodriquez-Guglielmoni
Heather Russell
Joy Russell
Sajoya
Jose Sanjines
Dorothea Smartt
Craig Smith
Malachi Smith
Obediah Michael Smith
Eintou Pearl Springer
Lucia Suarez
Imani Tafari
Eunice Tate
Cheryl Boyce Taylor
Omi Maya Taylor-Holmes
Hanétha Vété-Congolo
Donna Aza Weir-Soley
Marvin Williams
Tiphanie Yanique

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Opal Palmer Adisa is a Jamaica-born, award-winning poet, educator and storyteller. Anthologised in over 100 publications, she is a regular performer of her work throughout the USA and presently lives in Oakland, California, when she is not traveling.