15 essays presenting new modes of access for, as well as meanings to, a number of well-known and lesser-known literary works, authors and cultural aspects of the English-, French- and Spanish-speaking areas of the Caribbean. The authors of the essays approach the literatures and cultures of the Caribbean from postcolonisation perspectives that are informed by modes of deconstructive observations and explorations, historical and biographical critiques, social and psychological discourse and gender and feminist interrogations.