Caribbean Women and Their Art - An Encyclopedia

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.

About the author

Mary Ellen Snodgrass is an award-winning author of English and Latin textbooks and reference works for 35 years. She taught at Hickory High School and Lenoir Rhyne University in North Carolina for 23 years. Her writing focuses on women's and world literature and history and general research topics, including epidemics, the history of money, clothing, food, and dance. She lives in Hickory, North Carolina.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Snodgrass Mary Ellen
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781538117194
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-1719-4
• No. of pages: 218
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works; Latin America, The arts: general issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, ART / History / General, ART / Reference, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Reference, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General, ART / Caribbean & Latin American, HISTORY / Women, ART / Women Artists, HISTORY / Latin America / General, HISTORY / Reference, History of art / art & design styles, Caribbean islands, History of Art, Art treatments & subjects, Reference works, Gender studies: women, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, History of the Americas, Gender studies: women and girls, Outsider Art, Art brut, The Arts: treatments and subjects, Folk, Folkloric styles, The arts: general topics