Forgotten Voices: Caribbean Women on BBC Radio.

在1943至1958年间播出的BBC广播节目《加勒比之声》的372名撰稿人中，有71名是妇女。艾莉森·唐奈在《超越温德鲁什》一书中写道，对这些女性的关注清楚地表明，与经典的男性温德鲁什作品并存的是另一种西印度群岛女性文学史。然而，自那以后，她列出的作家都被蒙上了一层默默无闻的阴影。与萨姆·塞尔冯或V.S.奈保尔不同，节目中包括的大多数女作家都没有被纳入现已确立的加勒比海英语写作规范。桑德拉·考特曼在介绍乔伊斯·格拉德威尔的《棕色面孔，大师》一书时，探讨了造成这一现象的原因之一，可能是因为她倾向于让这部小说优先于其他表现形式。这已经取代了温德鲁什一代女性更经常从事的诗歌和自传写作。我的研究和写作将深入研究这些被遗忘的加勒比海女性写作声音的作品。我尤其对探索诗歌、自传和短篇小说感兴趣，因为这些作品比这一时期的加勒比妇女文学小说更具代表性。我试图就两个问题为现有的知识领域做出贡献。第一个问题是：在创作西印度群岛和英语加勒比文学的过程中，如何或为什么会忽视这么多加勒比海女性的声音？长期以来，我一直对恢复加勒比地区丰富的文学和文化历史，更具体地说，是生活在英国的加勒比裔人的文学作品感兴趣，这促使我探讨这个话题。我的第二个问题是：什么被遗忘了？为此，我想研究加勒比之声的档案，并探索在该方案运行期间出版的加勒比妇女写作文本。从这次探索中，我想创作出一部长篇非虚构类创意作品。

Of the 372 contributors to the BBC radio programme, Caribbean Voices, broadcast between 1943 and 1958, 71 were women. Alison Donnell, in Beyond Windrush, writes that 'attention to these women makes it clear that an alternative West Indian women's literary history existed alongside the canonical male Windrush writings.' Yet the writers she lists have since been cast into 'a shadow of obscurity.' Unlike Sam Selvon or V.S. Naipaul, the majority of the women writers included in the programme have not been included in the now-established canon of Anglophone Caribbean writing. Sandra Courtman, in her introduction to Joyce Gladwell's Brown Face, Big Master, explores the possibility that one of the reasons for this is 'the tendency to privilege the novel over other forms of expression.' This has dislodged the poetry and autobiographical writing in which women of the Windrush generation were more often engaged.My research and writing will delve into the works of some of these forgotten voices of Caribbean women's writing. In particular, I am interested in exploring works of poetry, autobiography and short fiction, as these are more representative than the novel of Caribbean women's literature of this period. I am seeking to contribute to the existing field of knowledge, in relation to two questions.The first is: how, or why have so many Caribbean women's voices have been overlooked in the creation of a West Indian and then Anglophone Caribbean literature? I am motivated to explore this topic by a long-standing personal interest in recovering the rich literary and cultural history of the Caribbean and, more specifically, literature by people of Caribbean origin living in Britain.My second question is: what has been forgotten? To this end, I want to research the archives of Caribbean Voices, and to explore the published texts of Caribbean women writing during the period that the programme ran. From this exploration, I want to produce a long-form piece of creative non-fiction.