Caribbean writers

One of the main reasons for Carribean writers to write is to show or to let the world know about their real identity. The identity they have lost for many years. Through poems, essays and short stories, they can express what their culture really is, which is the richness of their language, the exaltation of their customs and the beauty of the Caribbean people. Although they say they "feel multicultural" they keep on struggling for preserving something that is and will always be important to them, their "real culture." Grace Nichol´s essay "The Battle of the Language" criticizes the way black people are treated and are being treated, it is also mention the way she uses language in order to create a world of her own, because in the world that she lives in is full racial discrimination. When Grace Nichol writes, she feels she has the control of the world, she can recreate a world that she really likes, perhaps a world where black women or just women are not invisible. Besides Nichol´s essay, there is a short story from Marie G. Lee " My two Dads" This short story is also related to culture, the rescue of the Korean culture. Within the story the narrator experienced two different cultures, two different worlds, two different dads and of course two different narrators as well. Even though Marie Lee is not a Caribbean writer, her short story fits perfectly here, because through her writings, she struggles for her own culture and for her own indentity, the identity she had lost just for being Korean- American. People can say many things of Caribbean writers, but one thing is for sure they are going to continue, through literary texts, to prove the world that they have their own identity, their own culture. To end this session about Caribbean writers and to highlight their struggle for being themselves, it is important to write this: "I was always being told I should be something, and then my whole upbringing was something I was not: it was English." Jamaica Kincaid ( a Caribbean writer).