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Volume 8 - 2006

• Helen Pyne Timothy
  About Our Name
• Hyacinth M. Simpson
  From the Editor

Fiction

• Poems
  Olive Senior “Hook”
• Ramabai Espinet “Talking Between the Rooms” and “Evening (After Air India, 1985)”
• Short Story
  Pamela Mordecai “Cold Comfort”

Creative Non-fiction

• Alexis Pauline Gumbs
  Deagelar Ma. . .Comère: Dispersed Daughterhood and Queer Desire—a blue airmail envelope

Articles

• Andrea Medovarski
  "I knew this was England”: Myths of Return in Andrea Levy’s Fruit of the Lemon
• Paula Sanmartin
  “National” Poetry?: Diaspora and/or Transculturation in the Representation of National Identity in the Works of Cuban Women Poets
• Diana Brydon
  “A Place on the Map of the World”: Locating Hope in Shani Mootoo’s He Drown She in the Sea and Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For
• Simone Drake
  Gendering Diasporic Migration in Erna Brodber’s Louisiana

Book Reviews

• Elaine Savory
  Curdella Forbes’s From Nation to Diaspora: Samuel Selvon, George Lamming and the Performance of Gender
• Leah Rosenberg
  Evelyn O’Callaghan’s Women Writing the West Indies, 1804-1939: “A Hot Place, Belonging to Us”
• Sarah Phillips Casteel
  Jamaica Kincaid’s Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya

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