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Tables of Contents for The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
xiii
Some People are Meant to Live Alone
1
8
Pioneers, Oh, Pioneers
9
9
Pablo's Fandango
18
8
Drought
26
9
Triumph
35
15
Journey to the Seed
50
12
Red Dirt Don't Wash
62
8
Encarnacion Mendoza's Christmas Eve
70
10
The Doors Open at Three
80
11
The Cricket Match
91
5
The Light on the Sea
96
5
Tilson Ezekiel Alias Ti-Zek
101
9
Shadows Move in the Britannia Bar
110
9
Rosena on the Mountain
119
19
The Master Tailor and the Teacher's Skirt
138
10
The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship
148
5
A Proper Anno Domini Feeling
153
6
To Da-Duh, in Memoriam
159
10
Dream Haiti
169
18
Buried Statues
187
13
They Better Don't Stop the Carnival
200
8
The Night Watchman's Occurrence Book
208
7
The Old Men Used to Dance
215
5
Leaving this Island Place
220
8
Victory and the Blight
228
7
The Breadnut and the Breadfruit
235
10
Altamont Jones
245
4
In Foreign Parts
249
8
When Women Love Men
257
13
Mammie's Form at the Post Office
270
4
Passport to Paradise
274
3
Morris, Bhaiya
277
11
Trotters
288
4
The Conversion of Millicent Vernon
292
12
Do Angels Wear Brassieres?
304
10
Goodbye Mother
314
12
Ballad for the New World
326
7
Eye-Openers
333
11
Sunday Cricket
344
4
The Inheritance of my Father: A Story for Listening
348
14
Blackness
362
4
The Walk
366
6
After the Hurricane
372
10
Red Hot Peppers
382
9
Pan for Pockot
391
8
Caribbean Chameleon
399
4
A World of Canes
403
13
The Waiting Room
416
8
Canada Geese and Apple Chatney
424
10
My Brother's Keeper
434
8
Private School
442
5
Nineteen Thirty-Seven
447
10
Biographical Notes
457
10
Suggestions for Wider Reading
467
6
Publisher's Acknowledgements
473