MaComère: Recent Publications, 1997-1999 Compiled by Brenda F. Berrian, Jennifer L. Glasscock, and Jeremy Caleb Johnson Acosta-Belén, Edna, and Barbara R. Sjostrom, ed. The Hispanic Experience in the United States: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives. New York: Praeger, 1998. (Critical essays about Puerto Ricans, Chicanos, Cubans and other Latinos). Adisa, Opal Palmer. It Begins with Tears. Westport: Heinemann, 1997. (First novel by Jamaican writer about ethnic identity and a woman who makes a new start in the village of Kristoff). Alvarez, Julia. Something to Declare. New York: Algonquin, 1998. (Essays about literature and family in Trujillo's Dominican Republic and the USA). Alvarez Borland, Isabel. Cuban-American Literature of Exile from Person to Persona. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1999. (Criticism about Cuban-American writers). Balutansky, Kathleen, and Marie-Agnès Sourieau, ed. Caribbean Creolization: Reflections on the Cultural Dynamics of Language, Literature, and Identity. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1998. (An examination of creolization and its impact on Caribbean literatures). Blanco, Evangeline. Caribe: A Novel of Puerto Rico. New York: Doubleday, 1998. (First novel by this Puerto Rican writer). Bobb, June A. Beating a Restless Drum: The Poetics of Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott. Lawrenceville: Africa World, 1998. Bolles, A. Lynn. Sister Jamaica: A Study of Women, Work, and Households in Kingston. Lanham: UP of America, 1997. (Study of women factory workers during the Michael Manley administration of 1978-79). Brand, Dionne. In Another Place. New York: Grove/Atlantic, 1997. (Author's first novel about two women looking for love in Toronto). Breeze, Jean "Binta." On the Edge of the Island. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe, 1997. (Poetry and short stories). Campbell, Elaine, and Pierrette Frickey, ed. The Whistling Bird: Women Writers of the Caribbean. Boulder: Lynne Reinner, 1998. (Anthology of short stories, poetry, drama, and excerpts from novels). Canetti, Yanitzia. Al otra lado. Barcelona: Seix Barral, 1998. (Cuban novel about a young woman's sexual awakening on an unidentified island). ---. Novelita Rosa/Soap Opera. Miami: Versal Editoral, 1998. (Cuban novel about Rosa and her fascination with soap operas). Capecia, Mayotte. I Am a Martinican Woman and The White Negress. Trans. Beatrice Stith Clarke. Pueblo: Passeggiata, 1998. (Translation of two Martinican novelettes originally published in the 1940s). Cezair-Thompson, Margaret. The True History of Paradise. New York: Penguin Putnam, 1999. (In Jamaica of the 1980s, Jean is overcome by memories of her ancestors). Chancy, Myriam. Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1997. (History and criticism of Haitian women writers of fiction). Chaviano, Daina. El hombre, la hembra y el hambre. Miami: Palenta, 1998. (Cuban novel about everyday life). Cliff, Michelle. The Store of a Million Items: Stories. New York: Houghton-Mifflin, 1998. (Short stories about gender, generations, and life in Jamaica and New York). Condé, Mary, and Thorunn L. Onsdale, ed. Caribbean Women Writers: Fiction in English. New York: St. Martin's, 1998. (Collection of critical essays). Condé, Maryse. The Last of the African Kings. Trans. Richard Philcox. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1997. (Novel about King Behanzin of Dahomey and his offspring in Martinique). ---. Land of Many Colors and Nanna-Ya: Pays Melé suivi de Nanna Ya. Trans. Nicole Ball. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1999. (Two novellas that discuss race, class, and gender in the French Caribbean and Jamaica). ---. Windward Heights. Trans. Richard Philcox. New York: Soho, 1999. (A French Caribbean version of Emily Brontė's Wuthering Heights). Danticat, Edwidge. the farming of bones. New York: Soho, 1998. (Novel about the massacre of Haitians in the Dominican Republic during the 1930s). Davies, Carole Boyce, Isidore Okpewho, and Ali Mazrui, ed. The African Diaspora: African Origins ad New World Self-Fashioning. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1998. (Essays that examine black cultures in Africa, the Caribbean, and Brazil). Davies, Catherine, ed. A Place in the Sun?: Women Writers in Twentieth-Century Cuba. New York: Zed, 1998. (Feminist readings from the pre-Revolutionary period and the post-1959 socialist era). Desquiron, Lilias. Reflections of Loko Miwa, a Novel. Trans. Robin Orr Bodkin. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1998. (Novel about two Haitian women ordained by the spirits of vodou). DoHarris, Brenda Chester. The Coloured Girl in the Ring. Lanham: Tantaria, 1997. (Novel about a woman's coming of age in Guyana of the late 1950s and the early 1960s). Douglas, Marcia. Madam Fate. New York: Soho, 1999. (Six Jamaican women's lives are loosely connected in an effort to cure their various pains). Edgell, Zee. The Festival of San Joaquin. Westport: Heinemann, 1997. (Novel about a woman who murdered her husband in Belize). Edmundson, Belinda, ed. Caribbean Romances: The Politics of Regional Representation. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1999. (Ten essays that explore the concept of romance in Caribbean pop culture and literature). Escoffery, Gloria. Mother Jackson Murders the Moon. Leeds: Peepal Tree, 1998. (Poems about domestic happiness in Jamaica). Ferguson, Moira, ed. Nine Black Women: An Anthology of Nineteenth Century Women Writers from the United States, Canada, Bermuda, and the Caribbean. New York: Routledge, 1998. (Excerpts by Mary Prince, Mary Seacole, and Mary Ann Shand Cary). Fernandez, Alina. Castro's Daughter: An Exile's Memoir of Cuba. New York: St. Martin's, 1998. (Castro's illegitimate daughter's biographical insight into her father's world). Fernandez Olmos, Margarite, and Lizbeth Paravisini, ed. Sacred Possessions: Voodoo, Santeria, Obeah, and the Caribbean. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1997. (Essays about religious syncretism as explored by women writers from across the Caribbean). Ferré, Rosario. Eccentric Neighborhoods. New York: NAL/Dutton, 1998. (Novel about a woman from the town of La Concordia and the transformation of Puerto Rico into an industrial society). ---. Malidto amor (Sweet Diamond Dust and Other Stories) . New York: Vintage, 1998. (Four stories about cultural and political struggles in Puerto Rico). Garcia, Cristina. The Aguero Sisters. New York: Ballantine, 1998. (Novel about sisters who have been estranged for thirty years). Garcia-Aguilera, Carolina. Bloody Shame. Berkeley: Berkeley, 1997. (Second in the series about a Cuban-born private investigator, Lupe Solano, who investigates two cases in Miami). ---. Bloody Secrets. New York: Penguin, 1999. (Third in the series about Lupe Solano who takes a case involving a raft refugee). Henriques, Anna Ruth. The Book of Mechtilde. New York: Random House, 1997. (Words and paintings about the author's mother who died of breast cancer). Hernandez, Carmen Dolores. Puerto Rican Voices in English: Interviews with Writers. New York: Praeger, 1997. (Interviews with Puerto Rican women and male writers living in the United States and writing in English). Hopkinson, Nalo. Brown Girl in the Ring. New York: Warner, 1998. (A young adult science fiction novel about a Jamaican girl who embraces her heritage in urban 21st century Toronto). Jarrett-MacAuley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson. New York: St. Martin's, 1998. (Critical biography of the late Jamaican poet, playwright, and BBC broadcaster based on extensive archival research). Kempadoo, Oonya. Buxton Spice. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1999. (Guyanese author's first novel about an adolescent's sexual awakening). Lalla, Barbara. Arch of Fire: A Jamaican Family Saga. Kingston: Kingston, 1998. (Author's first novel). McDaniel, Lorna. The Big Drum Ritual of Carriacou: Praisesongs in Rememory of Flight. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1998. (Interdisciplinary study of the Nation dance). Melville, Pauline. The Ventriloquist's Tale. New York: Bloomsbury, 1998. (Novel about Guyana that covers nearly a century). ---. The Migration of Ghosts. New York: Bloomsbury, 1999. (Eleven short stories about ghosts and spirits in England, Guyana, and African countries). Montero, Mayra. In the Palm of Darkness. Trans. Edith Grossman. New York: Harper Collins, 1998. (In 1992, two men hunt for a blood frog in the mountains of Haiti). ---. The Messenger. Trans. Edith Grosman. New York: Harper Collins, 1999. (Novel based on the doomed love affair between the opera singer Enrico Caruso and his Chinese Cuban mistress, Aida Cheng, in Cuba in the 1920s). Mootoo, Shani. Cereus Blooms by Night. New York: Grove-Atlantic, 1998. (Novel based on an alleged crime on a fictional Caribbean island). Newson, Adele, and Linda Strong-Leek, ed. Winds of Change: The Transforming Voices of Caribbean Writers and Scholars. New York: Peter Lang, 1998. (Eighteen essays developed for the April 1996 International Conference of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars held at Florida International University in Miami, Florida). Nunez, Elizabeth. Beyond the Limbo Silence. Seattle: Seal, 1998. (Novel about a Trinidadian woman who migrates to the United States). Renk, Kathleen. Caribbean Shadows and Victorian Ghosts: Women's Writing and Decolonization. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1999. (Essays that trace connections between Anglophone Caribbean women's texts and Victorian discourses on family, race, and hierarchy). Robotham, Rosemarie. Zachary's Wings. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. (Novel about a love affair between a working class African American man and an upper middle class Caribbean woman). Santiago, Esmeralda. Almost a Woman. New York: Perseus, 1998. (A continuation of Santiago's autobiography When I Was Puerto Rican). Santos-Febres, Mayra. Urban Oracles: Stories. Trans. Lydia Platon Lazaro. New York: Brookline, 1997. (Fifteen stories by an Afro-Puerto Rican writer). ---. El cuerpo correcto. San Juan: R and R Editoras, 1998. (Erotic short stories). Savory, Elaine. Jean Rhys. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999. (A critical reading of Rhys's stories, autobiography, and unpublished manuscripts). Suarez, Ana Veciana. The Chin Kiss King. New York: New American Library, 1998. (A tale of three generations of Cuban-American women whose lives are transformed when one of their children is born with a severe birth defect). Tate, Eunice Heath. Background Noises. North Miami: Akil, 1998. (Poetry). Timothy, Helen Pyne. The Woman, the Writer, and Caribbean Society: Critical Analyses of the Writings of Caribbean Women: Proceedings of the Second International Conference. Los Angeles: CASS, 1998. (Series of essays presented at the conference held in Port of Spain, Trinidad). Toussaint, Rose-Marie, with Anthony E. Santanicello. Never Question a Miracle: A Surgeon's Story. New York: Random House, 1997. (Biography about a Haitian woman surgeon who specializes in liver and kidney transplants at a major university hospital). Valdes, Zoe. Yocandra in the Paradise of Nada. Trans. Sabina Cienfuegos. Miami: Arcade, 1997. (First novel about a young woman who copes with chaos, love, and the ups and downs of the 1959 Cuban revolution). This page requires frames for navigation. If there is no menubar at left, please click here.