MaComère

Volume 1, 1998

Table of Contents


    Helen Pyne Timothy, President of ACWWS
    About the Name

Tribute to Beryl Gilroy

    Daryl Cumber Dance
    Beryl Gilroy: A Bio-Literary Overview

    Jeremy Poynting
    A Writer at the Height of Her Powers: Three Recent Novels by Beryl Gilroy

    Beryl Gilroy
    Women of Colour at the Barricades


Creative Works

    Marion Bethel ~ Non-fiction
    I'll Fly Away

    Marcia Douglas ~ Poetry
    Kings Street
    Labrish on a Kingston Mini Bus
    The Ascania Docks in Southampton, circa 1955

    Angela Hernandez ~ Fiction
    Ojos Aguados
    Tear-Laden Eyes

    Claudia Jones ~ Poetry
    Morning Mists
    To Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

    Olga Nolla ~ Fiction
    La Felicidad de Robertito
    Robertito's Happiness

    Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert ~ Fiction
    In Which I Learn That Being a Flower Girl Is Not Everything It's Cut Out To Be

    Maureen Roberts ~ Poetry
    Sun Gods
    My Grandmother Sings to Me
    Polished Silver

    Jan Shinebourne ~ Fiction
    Soho, Southall and Brixton


Criticism

    Carole Boyce Davies
    Afro-Brazilian Women, Culture and Literature: An Introduction and an Interview with Miriam Alves

    Myriam J. A. Chancy
    Marvel-Women: J.J. Dominique's Memoire d'une Amnesique

    Leota Lawrence
    Paradigm and Paradox in The Hills of Hebron

    Geta LeSeur
    Wild Women in the Wilderness: Tituba of I,Tituba, Black Witch of Salem and Télumée of Bridge of Beyond as Maroon Subjects Finding Voice

    Helen Pyne Timothy
    Language as Subversion in Postcolonial Literature: The Case of Two Caribbean Women Writers


Selected Papers from the 1996 International Conference of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars

    Kathleen M. Balutansky
    The Muse Speaks a Tongue

    Roseanne Hoefel
    Praisesong for Paule Marshall: Music and Dance as Redemptive Metaphor in Brown Girl, Brownstones and Praisesong for the Widow

    Edyta Oczkowcz
    Triadic Empowerment: Invention of Female Identity in Erna Brodber's Myal and Louisiana

    Jennifer Rahim
    Recreating the Woman's Relationship to the House: Towards Spacial Sovereignty in Merle Hodge's For the Life of Laetitia

    Leah R. Rosenberg
    Mother and Country: Implications of Rhys' Construction of Exile

    Elaine Savory
    Ex/Isle: Separation, Memory and Desire in Caribbean Women's Writing

    Jennifer Sparrow
    Capécia, Condé, and the Antillean Woman's Identity Quest


Book Reviews

    Brenda F. Berrian
    Myriam J. A. Chancy: Searching for Safe Spaces: Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile

    Denise de Caires Narain
    Grace Nichols: Sunris


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