'A World of Caribbean Romance': Reformulating the Legend of Love (or: 'Can a Caress Be Culturally Specific?')

Author
Publication year
1994
Journal
Caribbean Studies
Volume
27.3/4
Pages
346–366
Comment

This seems to have been reprinted in Framing the Word: Gender and Genre in Caribbean Women's Writing (1996) Ed. Joan Anim-Addo (London: Whiting and Birch), pp. 108-127.

it was only in 1991 that the British publisher, Heinemann, identified the 'gap in the market' which its new series, Caribbean Caresses, is designed to fill. The guidelines to prospective authors explicitly claim the highly respectable genealogy of a British imprint which has been in operation since 1908: 'Mills & Boon are tremendously popular throughout the Caribbean, but these lack any real Caribbean setting or connection. Heinemann plans to fill this gap. (348)