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Volume 1 - 1998

Table of Contents

• Helen Pyne Timothy, President of ACWWS
  About the Name

Tribute to Beryl Gilroy

• Daryl Cumber Dance
  Beryl Gilroy: A Bio-Literary Overview
• Jeremy Poynting
  A Writer at the Height of Her Powers: Three Recent Novels by Beryl Gilroy
• Beryl Gilroy
  Women of Colour at the Barricades

Creative Works

• Marion Bethel
  I'll Fly Away
• Marcia Douglas
  Kings Street
  Labrish on a Kingston Mini Bus
  The Ascania Docks in Southampton, circa 1955
• Ángela Hernández
  Ojos Aguados
  Tear-Laden Eyes
• Claudia Jones
  Morning Mists
  To Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
• Olga Nolla
  La Felicidad de Robertito
  Robertito's Happiness
• Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
  In Which I Learn That Being a Flower Girl Is Not Everything It's Cut Out To Be
• Maureen Roberts
  Sun Gods
  My Grandmother Sings to Me
  Polished Silver
• Jan Shineborne
  Soho, Southall and Brixton
• Carole Boyce Davies
  Afro-Brazilian Women, Culture and Literature: An Introduction and an Interview With Miriam Alves
• Myriam J.A. Chancy
  Marvel-Women: J.J. Dominique's Memoire d'une Amnésique
• Leota Lawrence
  Paradigm and Paradox in The Hills of Hebron
• Geta LeSeurt
  Wild Women in the Wilderness: Tituba of I Tituba, Black Witch of Salem and Télumée of Bridge of Beyondas Maroon Subjects Finding Voice
• Helen Pyne Timothy
  Language as Subversion in Postcolonial Literature: The Case of Two Caribbean Women Writers

Selected Papers from the 1996 International Conference of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars

• Kathleen M. Balutansky
  The Muse Speaks a Tongue
• Roseanne Hoefel
  Praisesong for Paule Marshall: Music and Dance As Redemptive Metaphor in Brown Girl,
  Brownstones and Praisesong for the Widow
• Edyta Oczkowcz
  Triadic Empowerment: Invention of Female Identity in Erna Brodber's Myal and Louisiana
• Jennifer Rahim
  Recreating the Woman's Relationship to the House: Towards Spacial Sovereignty in Merle Hodge's For the Life of Laetitia
• Leah R. Rosenberg
  Mother and Country: Implications of Rhys' Construction of Exile
• Elaine Savory
  Ex/Isle: Separation, Memory and Desire in Caribbean Women's Writing
• Jennifer Sparrow
  Capécia, Condé, and the Antillean Woman's Identity Quest

Book Reviews

• Brenda F. Berrian
  Myriam J.A. Chancy. Searching for Safe Spaces: Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile
• Denise de Caires Narain
  Grace Nichols. Sunris

Notes on Contributors