Alexander Street: Literature, Drama, and Performing Arts

Vital Survey of Black Caribbean Thought

With the release of "Gendered Realities: Essays in Caribbean Feminist Thought" editor Patricia Mohammed has gathered extraordinarily varied source material written by some of the most creative thinkers on gender and race today.  Highly accessible essays explore the placement and function of gender and race within classic texts, modern milieus, and un-mined territories.   Essay categories include "Speaking Their Piece: Women, Gender and the Media," "The Double Take: Gender and the Literary Imagination," and "Made in the Caribbean: Constructing Gender."

Mohammed has compiled an anthology vital for scholars and students, while also training an eye on a new direction for the broader discourse on Caribbeanism.

World Literature Series Launch

We are very pleased to announce the debut of the Alexander Street Press World Literature Series. This is a fully interactive collection of definitive, full-text databases covering literatures of place, race, and gender. In addition to celebrating the creative achievements of women from across the globe, the World Literature Series allows users to explore the rich literary heritage of Africa and its Diaspora, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, and other regions. Today it comprises more than 5,500 plays and more than 250,000 pages of poetry, fiction, and essays. Every two weeks Alexander Street adds thousands of pages of new content--giving users immediate access to a steadily growing treasury of classic, rare, and contemporary literature.  Please come share this fascinating and expansive collection.