MaComère: Recent Publications, 2000-2001 Compiled by Brenda Berrian, Jennifer L. Glasscock, and Jeremy Caleb Johnson Alexander, Simone A. James. Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 2000. (The exploration of relationships between mothers and the motherlands of the Caribbean and Africa in the works of Marsye Condé, Jamaica Kincaid, and Paule Marshall. ISBN 082621309X) [Buy it!] Alvarez, Julia. The Secret Footprints. New York: Alfred Knopf, 2000. (Based on the legend of ciguapas, underwater people who use their backward footprints to stay hidden from humans. ISBN 0679893091) [Buy it!] Balmaseda, Lisa (Contributor), and Pedro Jose Jr. Greer. Waking Up America: How One Doctor Brings Hope to Those Who Need It Most. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. (Memoirs of a Cuban physician who dedicates his life to the homeless in Miami. ISBN 0684835479) [Buy it!] Bertrand, Diane Gonzales. Trino's Choice. Miami: Atre Público, 2000. (A children's book about a seventh grader who lives in a trailer park. ISBN 1558852794) [Buy it!] Bettinger-Lopez, Caroline S., and Ruth Behar. Cuban-Jewish Journeys: Searching for Identity, Home and History in Miami. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 2000. (ISBN 1572330988) [Buy it!] Booker, Keith, and Dubravka Juraga, eds. The Caribbean Novel in English: An Introduction. Westport: Greenwood, 2000. (Excerpts from Caribbean novels that include Michelle Cliff's Abeng; Merle Collins' Angel; Zee Edgell's Beka Lamb; Merle Hodge's Crick Crack Monkey; and Paule Marshall's The Chosen Place, the Timeless People. ISBN 0325002126) [Buy it!] Condé, Maryse. Tales from the Heart: True Stories from My Childhood. Trans. Richard Philcox. New York: Soho, 2001. (Guadeloupean novelist's accounts of her childhood in Guadeloupe and in Paris, France. ISBN 1569472645) [Buy it!] Danticat, Edwidge, ed. The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States. New York: Soho, 2001. (An anthology of poems and essays that articulates the frustrations of Haitians who find themselves outsiders in Haiti and the United States. ISBN 1569472181) [Buy it!] ---. The Beacon Best of 2000: Great Writing by Women and Men of All Colors and Cultures (Beacon Anthology, 2000). Boston: Beacon, 2000. (Poems and essays by writers who are originally from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Europe. ISBN 0807062456) [Buy it!] Dyer, Bernadette. Villa Fair. Toronto: Beach Holme, 2000. (Collection of thirteen multicultural short stories set in both Canada and Jamaica by a Jamaican Canadian writer. ISBN 0888784104) [Buy it!] Elias, Marie Louise. Barbados. Tarrytown, NY: Benchmark, 2000. (A children's book about the island of Barbados. ISBN 0761409769) [Buy it!] Fernandez, Damian, and Madeline Camara Betancourt, eds. Cuba: The Elusive Nation: Interpretations of National Identity. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2000. (An anthology of fifteen essays about what constitutes a Cuban identity. ISBN 0813018005) [Buy it!] Furgang, Kathy. Mt. Pelée: The Deadliest Volcano Eruption of the 20th Century. New York: Powerkids Press, 2001. (A children's book about Mt. Pelée in Martinique. ISBN 0823956636) [Buy it!] Garcia-Aguilera, Carolina. Havana Heat: A Lupe Solano Mystery. New York: William Morrow, 2000. (Lupe, the detective, has to deal with family secrets, Cuban American royalty and a stolen tapestry. ISBN 038097780x) [Buy it!] ---. A Miracle in Paradise: A Lupe Solano Mystery. New York: Avon, 2000. (Lupe's case involves miraculous healings among the Order of the Illumination of the Sacred Virgin. ISBN 0380807386) [Buy it!] Heisler-Samuels, Betty. The Last Minyan in Havana. New York: Chutzpah, 2000. (A novel about a Polish man who migrates to Cuba and lives there for twenty-five years. ISBN 0970307802) [Buy it!] Herrera, Andrea O'Reilly. The Pearl of the Antilles. Tempe, AZ: Bilingual P, 2001. (A novel about the lives of several generations of Cuban women. ISBN 0927534967) [Buy it!] Hoving, Isabel. In Praise of New Travelers: Reading Caribbean Migrant Women Writers (Cultural Memory in the Present). Palo Alto: Stanford UP, 2001. (English language migrant women's writings from the 1980s to the 1990s. ISBN 0804729484) [Buy it!] Jenkins, Olga Culmer, ed. Bahamian Memories: Island Voices of the Twentieth Century. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2000. (Thirty stories about Bahamian writers of the twentieth century. ISBN 0813017793) [Buy it!] King-Gamble, Marcia. Illusions of Hope. New York: Arabesque/BET Books, 2000. (A romance novel by a writer from St. Vincent that takes place in the Pocono mountains of Pennsylvania. ISBN 1583141049) [Buy it!] ---. A Reason to Love. New York: Arabesque/BET Books, 2001. (Another romance novel about a woman pediatrician who spends a few weeks on the New Jersey shore. ISBN 1583141332) [Buy it!] Lamazares, Ivonne. The Sugar Island. New York: Houghton-Mifflin, 2000. (First novel about a Cuban mother and daughter who move from Cuba to Florida. ISBN 0395860407) [Buy it!] MacDonald-Smythe, Antonia. Making Homes in the West/Indies: Constructions of Subjectivity in the Writings of Michelle Cliff and Jamaica Kincaid. New York: Routledge, 2000. (Critical study focusing on the ways that Cliff and Kincaid have made themselves "at home" in Caribbean poetics while negotiating the impact of their migration to the United States. ISBN 0815340370) [Buy it!] Marshall, Paule. The Fisher King: A Novel. New York: Scribner, 2000. (Novel about a jazz pianist who moves from New York to Paris to escape racism. ISBN 0684872838) [Buy it!] Maud, Janice. Eclectic Madness. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse.com, 2000. (A book of poems. ISBN 0595006507) [Buy it!] Medina, C. C. A Little Love. New York: Warner Books, 2000. (A husband-wife team based in Miami wrote this novel about four Latina women. ISBN 0446524484) [Buy it!] Mercado, Nancy. It Concerns the Madness. New York: Long Shot Productions, 2000. (Poetry by a Nuyorican American writer. ISBN 0965473856) [Buy it!] Mohamed, Paloma. Song: Poems. Dover, MA: The Majority Press, 2000. (Poems by a writer from Guyana. ISBN 0912469382) [Buy it!] Mordecai. Pamela. Certifiable. Fredericton, Canada: Goose Lane Editions, 2001.(Poems by a Jamaican writer based in Toronto, Canada. ISBN 0864922957) [Buy it!] ---, and Martin Mordecai, eds. Culture and Customs in Jamaica. Westport: Greenwod, 2000. (Essays about the history, visual arts, media, cinema, literature, music, history and people of Jamaica. ISBN 031330534X) [Buy it!] Palmer Adisa, Opal. Leaf-of-Life. Oakland, CA: Jukebox, 2000. (A book of poems by the Jamaican author. ISBN 0932693075) [Buy it!] Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth, and Ivette Romero-Cesareo, eds. Women at Sea: Travel Writing and the Margins of Caribbean Discourse. New York: Palgrave, 2000. (This book includes the slave narrative of Mary Prince and the Caribbean experiences of Aphra Behn. ISBN 0312219962) [Buy it!] Pineau, Gisèle. L'Ame prêtée aux oiseaux [The Soul on Loan to Birds]. Paris: Editions Stock, 1998. (Novel by the Guadeloupean writer centering around the lives of a black woman from Guadeloupe and a white woman from Paris, France.) Ramnarine, Tona K. Creating Their Own Space: The Development of an Indian-Caribbean Musical Tradition. Kingston: UP of the West Indies, 2001. (The evolution of Chutney with insights into social processes and the construction of the Indian Caribbean identity through music is explored. ISBN 9766400997) [Buy it!] Rivera, Beatriz. Playing with Light. Miami: Arte Publico, 2000. (Novel about Cuban American women that goes back and forth in time between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. ISBN 1558853103) [Buy it!] Rodriquez, Aleida. Garden of Exile. New York: Consortium Book, 1999. (Collection of poems by a Cuban who lives in California. ISBN 1889330329) [Buy it!] Rody, Caroline. The Daughter's Return: African American and Caribbean Women's Fictions of History. New York: Oxford UP, 2001. (A look at the daughters' return to an ancestral past. ISBN 0195138880) [Buy it!] Schwarz-Bart, Simone, and André Schwarz-Bart, eds. In Praise of Black Women: Ancient African Queens. Trans. Val Vinokurov. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2001. (English version of the first volume of a three-volume collection of historical accounts and illustrations of little-known African women by the Guadeloupean novelist and playwright and her husband. ISBN 0299172505) [Buy it!] Springer, Eintou. Moving Into the Light. Kingston: Ian Randle, 2000. (Poems by the Trinidadian writer. ISBN 9766370230) [Buy it!] Stoner, K. Lynn, and Luis Hipolito Serrano Perez, eds. Cuban and Cuban-American Women: An Annotated Bibliography. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 2000. (An annotated bibliography of works by Cuban and Cuban-American women. ISBN 0842626436) [Buy it!] Troyano, Alina, Chon A. Noriega, Elsa Troyano, and Uzi Parnes. I, Carmelita Tropicana: Performing between Cultures. Boston: Beacon, 2000. (Collection of prose and plays. ISBN 0807066036) [Buy it!] Veciana-Suarez, Ana. Birthday Parties in Heaven: Thoughts on Love, Grief and Other Matters of the Heart. New York: Plume, 2000. (Personal essays by the Cuban American columnist for the Miami Herald about matters of the heart. ISBN 0452282004) [Buy it!] Vega, Marta Moreno. The Altar of My Soul: The Living Traditions of Santeria. New York: Ballantine, 2000. (Author's journey from childhood in her search for an understanding of the santeria. ISBN 034542137x) [Buy it!] Vélez, María Teresa. Drumming for the Gods: The Life and Times of Felipe García Villamil, Santero, Polero and Abakuá. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2000. (Three periods in the life of the Afro-Cuban artists whose music has survived in Cuba and New York. ISBN 1566397316) [Buy it!] Williams-Garcia, Rita. Every Time a Rainbow Dies. New York: Harper Collins Juvenile Book, 2001. (The return of two friends, Thulani and Ysa, to Jamaica to die. ISBN 0688162452) [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.