SOURCE: Pollard, Velma. “Images of Women in the Short Stories of Olive Senior.” In The Woman, the Writer and Caribbean Society, edited by Helen Pyne-Timothy, pp. 118-25. Los Angeles: Center for Afro-American Studies Publications, 1998.

In the following essay, Pollard considers the depiction of women in Senior's short stories.

At a time when our societies are fighting silent and not so silent battles for recognition of women's efforts inside and outside of the family milieu, this [essay] looks at some modern Caribbean writing and discusses the image of women portrayed there. I believe that the discussion will support the argument that Caribbean fiction, inspired as it is by Caribbean reality, has had no difficulty in describing women who play positive leadership roles, taking their rightful place. It suggests further that, where Caribbean fiction is part of the school's curriculum, there need be no fear that the next generation will...