MaComère: Recent Publications, 1999-2000 Compiled by Brenda F. Berrian, Jennifer L. Glasscock, and Jeremy Caleb Johnson Ada, Alma Flor. Poemas. Trans. F. Isabel Campoy. Miami: Santillana, 1999. (ISBN 1581054084) [Buy it!] Agosto, Noraida. Michelle Cliff's Novels: Piecing the Tapestry of Memory and History. New York: Peter Lang, 2000. (Caribbean studies. ISBN 08204442550) [Buy it!] Aken, Ann Waggoner, and Luis Gonzalez, eds. Looking Backwards: Three Master Pieces of Cuban Theatre. Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2000. (ISBN 1892295660) [Buy it!] Alegría, Claribel. Saudade [Sorrow]. Trans. Carolyn Forché. Madrid: Visor Libros; Willimantic, CT: Curbstone, 1999. (Series of lyrics written to the author's recently deceased husband. ISBN 1880684632) [Buy it!] Alvarez, Julia. In the Name of Salome: A Novel. New York: Alonquin, 2000. (The stories of the 19th century poet and political activist, Salome Urena de Henriquez, and her daughter in alternating voices. ISBN 1565122763) [Buy it!] Antione, Patsy, ed. Afrobeat: New Black British Fiction. London: Pulp Fiction, 1999. (Short stories by black women in Great Britain. ISBN 1899571086) [Buy it!] Barrios, Flor Fernandez. Blessed by Thunder: Memoir of a Cuban Girlhood. Seattle: Seal P-PGW, 1999. (Story about a young girl growing up during the Communist revolution in Cuba. ISBN 1580050212) [Buy it!] Berrian, Brenda F. Awakening Spaces: French Caribbean Popular Songs, Music and Culture. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2000. (Includes a chapter on zouk women singers and their songs from Guadeloupe and Martinique. ISBN 0226044556) [Buy it!] Breinburg, Petronella. Stories from the Caribbean. Orlando: Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 2000. (Multicultural stories for children. ISBN 073982032X) [Buy it!] Brereton, Bridget, and Kevin Yelvington, eds. The Colonial Caribbean in Transition: Essays on Post-Emancipation Social and Cultural History. Kingston: U of West Indies P; Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1999. (ISBN 976640030X) [Buy it!] Britton, Celia. Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory: Strategies of Language and Resistance. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 1999. (ISBN 0813918499) [Buy it!] Castillo, Ana. Peel My Love Like an Onion. New York: Doubleday, 1999. (Novel. ISBN 0385496761) [Buy it!] Cezair-Thompson, Margaret. The True History of Paradise. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1999. (First novel about a woman and her disintegrating homeland of Jamaica. ISBN 0452280753) [Buy it! Condé, Mary, and Thorunn Lonsdale, eds. Caribbean Women Writers: Fiction in English. New York: St. Martins, 1999. (ISBN 031221863X) [Buy it!] Conde, Yvonne M. Operation Pedro Pan: The Untold Exodus of 14,000 Cuban Children. New York: Routledge, 1999. (ISBN 0415928230) [Buy it!] Copney, Claudette. Jamaican Culture & International Folklore, Superstitions, Beliefs, Dreams, Proverbs and Remedies. Raleigh: Pentland, 1998. (ISBN 1571971173) [Buy it!] Dayan, Joan. Haiti, History, and the Gods. Berkeley: U of California P, 1998. (ISBN 0520213688) [Buy it!] DeCosta-Willis, Miriam, ed. Singular Like a Bird: The Art of Nancy Morejon. Washington, DC: Howard UP, 1999. (Collection of critical essays about the poet and her work. ISBN 0882581988) [Buy it!] Diedrich, Maria, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Carl Pederson, eds. Black Imagination and the Middle Passage. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. (Collection of essays about the Caribbean slave trade. ISBN 0195126416) [Buy it!]  Edmondson, Belinda. Caribbean Romances: The Politics of Regional Representation. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 1999. (Collection of essays about music, romance, immigration and liminal spaces in works by Caribbean women and men writers. ISBN 0813918227) [Buy it!] ---. Making Men: Gender, Literary Authority, and Women's Writing in Caribbean Narrative. Chapel Hill: Duke UP, 1999 (ISBN 0822322633) [Buy it!] Elgersman, Maureen G. Unyielding Spirits: Black Women and Slavery in Early Canada and Jamaica. Crosscurrents in African American History Ser., vol. 6. New York: Garland, 1999. (ISBN 0815332297) [Buy it!] Ferracane, Kathleen K., ed. Caribbean Panorama: An Anthology from and about the English-Speaking Caribbean with Introduction, Study Questions, Biographies, and Suggestions. San Juan: U of Puerto Rico P, 1999. (ISBN 0847703215) [Buy it!] Ferrer, Ada. Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution 1868-1898. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1999. (Examines nationalist movement in Cuba. ISBN 080782500X) [Buy it!] Findlay, Eileen. Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870-1920. Durham: Duke UP, 1999. (Includes a chapter on prostitution. ISBN 0822323966) [Buy it!] Freeman, Carla C. High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work and Pink-Collar Identities in the Caribbean. Durham: Duke UP, 2000. (Women and labor and industrial relations. ISBN 0822324393) [Buy it!] Gentle, Eileen. Before the Sunset: A Memoir of Grenada. Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec: Shoreline, 1999. (ISBN 1896754074) [Buy it!] Goldin, Liliana R., ed. Identities on the Move: Transitional Processes in North America and the Caribbean Basin. Studies on Culture and Society Ser. Vol. 7. Albany, NY: Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, 2000. (Collection of essays on transnationalism. ISBN 0942041186) [Buy it!] Goodison, Lorna. Turn Thanks: Poems. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1999. (Book of poetry. ISBN 0252067886) [Buy it!] Gottlieb, Karla. The Mother of Us All: A History of Queen Nanny, Leader of the Windward Jamaican Maroons. Trenton: Africa World P, 1998. (Biography of Nanny the Maroon. ISBN 0865435650) [Buy it!] Gunning, Monica. Not a Copper Penny in Me House: Poems from the Caribbean. Honesdale, PA: Wordsong; New York: St. Martin's, 1999. (Poems for children. ISBN 1563977931) [Buy it!] Harrison, Michelle. King Sugar: Jamaica, the Caribbean and the World Sugar Industry. Montreal: Black Rose Books: 1998. (ISBN 1551641240) [Buy it!] Hatchwell, Emily, and Simon Calder, ed. Cuba: A Guide to the People, Politics, and Culture. London: Latin America Bureau; New York: Interlink, 1999. (Fourth decade of the Cuban revolution. ISBN 1566562414) [Buy it!] Hathaway, Heather. Caribbean Waves: Relocating Claude McKay and Paule Marshall. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1999. (Comparative study of Claude McKay and Paule Marshall's novels about first and second generation immigrants to the United States. ISBN 0253335698) [Buy it!] Hopkinson, Nalo. Midnight Robber. New York: Warner, 2000. (Novel. ISBN 0446675601) [Buy it!] Ippolito, Emilia. Caribbean Women Writers: Identity and Gender. Rochester: Camden House, 2000. (Caribbean women authors. ISBN 1571131590) [Buy it!] Jatar-Hausmann, Ana Julia. The Cuban Way: Capitalism, Communism and Confrontation. West Hartford, CT: Kumarian, 1999. (A return to the author's island of birth and an exploration of the complex culture of Cubans. ISBN 1565490886) [Buy it!] Johnson, Catherine, ed. Playing Sidney Poitier and Other Stories. London: Saks Media/London Arts Board, 1999. (Stories by Caribbean writers Maureen Roberts, A?dZiko Simba and others. ISBN 01819859419) Kadish, Doris Y., ed. Slavery in the Caribbean Francophone World: Distant Voices, Forgotten Acts, Forged Identities. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2000. (ISBN 0820321664) [Buy it!] Kempadoo, Kamala, ed. Sun, Sex, and Gold: Tourism and Sex Work in the Caribbean. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999. (A study of the sex trade of women from Cuba, Jamaica, Guyana, and the Dominican Republic. ISBN 0847695166) [Buy it!] Kincaid, Jamaica. My Garden. New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1999. (ISBN 0374281866) [Buy it!] Larrier, Renée Brenda. Francophone Women Writers of Africa and the Caribbean. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2000. (A study of narratives by women from Mali, Senegal, Guadeloupe, Haiti and Martinique. ISBN 0813017424) [Buy it!] Liddell, Janice Lee, and Yakini Belinda Kemp, eds. Arms Akimbo: Africana Women in Contemporary Literature. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1999. (ISBN 0813017289) [Buy it!] Louis, Liliane Nérette, and Frederick J. Hay, ed. When Night Falls, Kric, Krac!: Haitian Folktales. World Folklore Ser. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1999. (Haitian folktales. ISBN 1563085798) [Buy it!] Makward, Christiane. Mayotte Capécia ou l'Alienation selon Fanon [Mayotte Capécia or Alienation According to Fanon]. Paris: Karthala, 1999. (Summary of Capécia's two novels and Fanon's misogyny. ISBN 2865378608) [Buy it!] Malena, Anne. The Negotiated Self: The Dynamics of Identity in Francophone Caribbean Narrative. New York: Peter Lang, 1999. (ISBN 0820438871) [Buy it!] Maurel, Sylvie. Jean Rhys. London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's, 1999. (Examination of Rhys's writings through feminist criticism and literary theory. ISBN 0312216874) [Buy it!] McCallum, Shara. The Water between Us: Poems. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1999. (First book about life in Jamaica. ISBN 0822957108) [Buy it!] McManus, Jane. Cuba's Island of Dreams: Voices from the Isle of Pines and Youth. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2000. (History of the Isle of Pines/Isle of Youth. ISBN 0813017416) [Buy it!] Molina, Silvia. The Love You Promised Me. Trans. David Unger. Willimantic, CT: Curbstone P, 1999. (Novel. ISBN 1880684624) [Buy it!] Montero, Mayra. The Messenger. New York: HarperPerennial, 1999. (ISBN 0060929618) [Buy it!] Moses, Catherine. Real Life in Castro's Cuba. Latin American Silhouettes Ser. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1999. (A detailed account of daily life in Communist Cuba. ISBN 0842028374) [Buy it!] Navarro, Marysa, Kecia Ali, and Virginia Sanchez Korrlo, eds. Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: Restoring Women to History. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1999. (Role of women and gender ideology during the colonial period in Latin America. ISBN 025321307X) [Buy it!] Negroni, Maria. Islandia: A Poem. Trans. Anne Twitty. Barrytown: Barrytown Ltd., 2000. [Buy it!] Nunez, Elizabeth. Bruised Hibiscus. Seattle: Seal Press, 2000. (Spellbinding novel about two friends who witness a crime at the hibiscus bush in Trinidad. ISBN 1580050360) [Buy it!] Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth, and Margarite Fernandez Olmos, eds. Healing Cultures: Art and Religion as Curative Practices in the Caribbean and Its Diaspora. New York: St. Martin's, 1999. (ISBN 0312218982) [Buy it!] ---. Jamaica Kincaid: A Critical Companion. Westport: Greenwood, 1999. (ISBN 0313302952) [Buy it!] ---, and Ivette Romero-Cesareo, eds. Women at Sea: Travel Writing and the Margins of Caribbean Discourse. New York: St. Martin's, 2000. (ISBN 0312219962) [Buy it!] Parkinson, Rosemary, ed. Culinaria: The Caribbean. Köln, Germany: Kouml;nemann, 1999. (Book about Caribbean cooking, history, culture, and traditions. ISBN 3895089028) [Buy it!] Phipps, Marilene. Crossroads and Unholy Water. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2000 (Poetic interpretations of the Haitian experience. ISBN 0809323060) [Buy it!] Pineau, Gisele. The Drifting of Spirits [Grande Drive des Esprits]. Trans. Michael Dash. London: Quartet, 2000. (English translation of the Guadeloupean novel. ISBN 070438101X) [Buy it!] Ponce De Leon, Juana, and Esteban Rivera, eds. Dream with No Name: Contemporary Fiction from Cuba. New York: Seven Stories P, 1999. (ISBN 188836372X) [Buy it!] Ross, Jacob, and Joan Anim Addo, eds. Voice Memory Ashes: Lest We Forget. London: Mango Publishing, 1999. (Twenty?contributors among whom are Opal Palmer Adisa, Jean Buffong, Maureen Roberts, and Eunice Heath Tate. ISBN 1902294041) Santos Febres, Mayra. Sirena Selena. Trans. Stephen A. Lytle. Barcelona: Mondadori; New York: Picador, 2000. (First novel by the Puerto Rican writer. ISBN 0312252277) [Buy it!] Santos Silva, Loreina. This Eye that Looks at Me [Este ojo que me mira]. Trans. Carys Evans-Corrales Pittsburgh: Latin American Literary Review P, 2000. (ISBN 1891270060) [Buy it!] Schlesinger, Karin W. Desiring Paradise: . . . A True Story of Succumbing to the Dream. Saint John, VI: Conch, 1999. (Account of two New Englanders who move to the Caribbean. ISBN 0967372127) [Buy it!] Shepherd, Verene, ed. and comp. Women in Caribbean History: The British-Colonised Territories. Kingston: Ian Randle; Oxford: James Currey; Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener, 1999. (ISBN 9768123303) [Buy it!] ---, and Hilary Beckles, eds. Caribbean Slavery in the Atlantic World: A Student Reader. 1998. 2nd ed. Kingston: Ian Randle; Oxford: James Currey; Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener, 2000. (ISBN 1558761853) [Buy it!] Smorkaloff, Pamela Maria. Cuban Writers On and Off the Island: Contemporary Narrative Fiction. New York: Twayne, 1999. (ISBN 0805716173) [Buy it!] Valdès, Zoé. Café Nostalgia. Buenos Aires: Seix Barral, 1998. Barcelona: Planeta, 1999. (Novel. ISBN 8408028138) [Buy it!] ---. I Gave You All I Had [Te di la vida entera]. Trans. Nadia Benabid. New York: Arcade, 1999. (Story of a Cuban country girl's life and loves. ISBN 1559704772) [Buy it!] Vélez, María Teresa. Drumming for the Gods: The Life and Times of Felipe García Villamil, Santero, Palero, and Abakuá. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2000. (ISBN 1566397316) [Buy it!] Waters, Erika J., ed. The Caribbean Writer. Vol. 13. Saint Croix, VI: U of the Virgin Islands P, 1999. (Annual anthology of Carribean literature. ISBN 0962860611) [Buy it!] ---. The Caribbean Writer. Vol. 14. Saint Croix, VI: U of the Virgin Islands P, 2000. (ISBN 0962860638) [Buy it!] Waters, Mary-Alice, ed. Making History: Interviews with Four Generals of Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces. New York: Pathfinder, 1999. (ISBN 0873489020) [Buy it!] Williams, Claudette. Charcoal and Cinnamon: The Politics of Color in Spanish Caribbean Literature. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2000. (ISBN 081301736X) [Buy it!] Wucker, Michele. Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola. New York: Hill and Wang, 1999. (ISBN 0809097133) [Buy it!] Search: All Products Books Magazines Popular Music Classical Music Video DVD Toys & Games Baby Computer & Video Games Electronics Software Tools & Hardware Outdoor Living Kitchen & Housewares Camera & Photo Wireless Phones Keywords: This page requires frames for navigation. If there is no menubar at left, please click here.