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Volume 2 - 1999

Table of Contents

  • Helen Pyne Timothy
    About Our Name

Interviews

  • Brenda F. Berrian
    Zouk Diva: Interview with Jocelyne Béroard
  • Renée H. Shea
    "The Hunger to Tell": Edwidge Danticat and the farming of bones
  • Christine W. Sizemore
    "When Everything Else is Done and Dusted": An Interview with Barbara Burford, Scientist and Writer

Creative Writing

  • Opal Palmer Adisa
    What's Important?
    What Does It Mean?
    Oath Taking
    What the Poem Says
  • Barbara Burford
    The Pinstripe Summer
  • Danielle Legros Georges
    Abako
    Praisesong for Port-au-Prince
  • Joanne Allong Haynes
    Sleep Tobago
  • Claire Ince
    jesus or the wind (July 4th)
  • Pamela C. Mordecai
    My Sister Goes Off
    Blessed Assurance
    Gloria

Criticism

  • Miki Flockermann
    Breakdown or Breakthrough?: The Madness of Resistance in Wide Sargasso Sea and A Question of Power
  • Dominique Licops
    Origi/nation and Narration: Identity and Épanouissement In Gisèle Pineau's Exil selon Julia
  • Antonia MacDonald-Smythe
    Authorizing the Slut in Jamaica's Kincaid's
    At the Botton of the River

Selected Papers from the 1998 International Conference of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars

  • Martiza Paul
    Pluie et vent sur Téumée Miracle and Moi, Tituba socriére… Noire de Salem: Two Francophone Antillean Women's Praisesongs for the Obeah Woman
  • Cherene Sherrard
    The "Colonizing?" Mother Figure in Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones and Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother
  • Linda Spears-Bunton
    Ties That Bind Us: Literature, Response and the African Diaspora
  • Marcia Wharton-Zaretsky
    Fleurette Osbourne: A Black Woman Activist

Book Reviews

  • Kathleen Balutansky
    Danticat's Narrator Names the Nameless in the farming of bones
  • Catherine Den Tandt
    Mayra Santos Febres. El cuperpo correcto
  • Pascale De Souza
    From "Noir et Blanc": L'Exil selon Julia by Gisèle Pineau
  • Evelyn O'Callaghan
    Surviving in No-Man's Land: The Pagoda by Patricia Powell
  • María Cristina Rodríguez
    Rosario Ferré. The House on the Lagoon
  • Tanya Saunders
    Cristina Garcia. The Agüero Sisters
  • Jan Shinebource
    Pauline Melville. The Ventriloquist's Tale

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