Caribbean Women and Their Art - by Mary Ellen Snodgrass (Paperback)

About the Book

This is a chronology of creative contributions made by Caribbean women. Among the arts covered in this volume are quilting, beadwork, dancing, diaries and memoirs, folk music, landscaping, sculpture, theatrics, etc. Entries are cross-referenced and include further readings dra...

Book Synopsis

This is a chronology of creative contributions made by Caribbean women. Among the arts covered in this volume are quilting, beadwork, dancing, diaries and memoirs, folk music, landscaping, sculpture, theatrics, etc. Entries are cross-referenced and include further readings drawn from an exhaustive bibliography of sources.

Review Quotes

In Caribbean Women and Their Art, Snodgrass provides a valuable introduction to Caribbean female artists from different islands, cultures, and times. Though classed under fine arts, the encyclopedia includes entries on creative artists of all stripes--dancers, novelists, and painters certainly, but also artists engaged in less-typical artistic genres, e.g., folklorists, horticulturists, hymnographers, seamstresses. Organized alphabetically by artist name, entries range between a half page and three pages in length. No illustrations are included, but the encyclopedia presents basic background information and context that will pique the reader's curiosity. Sources at the end of each entry provide pathways for further research. The encyclopedia also includes a chronology, glossary of artists' specialties, and three appendixes ("Arts," "Islands," "Artist Ethnicity"), all useful in providing context. . . The appendixes are especially useful for researchers studying specific art forms or cultures. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.

About the Author

Mary Ellen Snodgrass is the author of several award-winning reference volumes, including Encyclopedia of Utopian Literature (1995), Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature (2006), and Encyclopedia of the Underground Railroad (2007). She is also the author of The Encyclopedia of World Ballet (2015), The Encyclopedia of World Folk Dance (2016), American Colonial Women and Their Art: A Chronological Encyclopedia (2017), and Frontier Women and Their Art: A Chronological Encyclopedia (2018), all published by Rowman & Littlefield.