MaComère

Volume 2, 1999

Table of Contents


    Helen Pyne Timothy, President of ACWWS
    About Our Name

Interviews

    Brenda F. Berrian
    Zouk Diva: Interview with Jocelyne Béroard

    Renée H. Shea
    "The Hunger to Tell": Edwidge Danticat and the farming of bones

    Christine W. Sizemore
    "When Everything Else Is Done and Dusted": An An Interview with Barbara Burford, Scientist and Writer


Creative Writing

    Opal Palmer Adisa ~ Poetry
    What's Important?
    What Does It Mean?
    Oath Taking
    What the Poem Says

    Barbara Burford ~ Fiction
    The Pinstripe Summer

    Danielle Legros Georges ~ Poetry
    Abako
    Praisesong for Port-au-Prince

    Joanne Allong Haynes ~ Poetry
    Sleep Tobago

    Claire Ince ~ Poetry
    jesus or the wind (July 4th)

    Pamela C. Mordecai ~ Poetry
    My Sister Goes Off
    Blessed Assurance
    Gloria


Criticism

    Miki Flockemann
    Breakdown or Breakthrough?: The Madness of Resistance in Wide Sargasso Sea and A Question of Power

    Dominique Licops
    Origi/nation and Narration: Identity and Epanouissement in Gisèle Pineau's Exil selon Julia

    Antonia MacDonald-Smythe
    Authorizing the Slut in Jamaica Kincaid's At the Bottom of the River


Selected Papers from the 1998 International Conference of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars

    Maritza Paul
    Pluie et vent sur Télemée Miracle and Moi, Tituba sorcière . . . Noire de Salem: Two Francophone Antillean Women's Praisesongs for the Obeah Woman

    Cherene Sherrard
    The "Colonizing?" Mother Figure in Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones and Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother

    Linda Spears-Bunton
    Ties That Bind Us: Literature, Response and the African Diaspora

    Marcia Wharton-Zaretsky
    Fleurette Osbourne: A Black Woman Activist


Book Reviews

    Kathleen Balutansky
    Danticat's Narrator Names the Nameless in the farming of bones

    Catherine Den Tandt
    Mayra Santos Febres. El cuerpo correcto

    Pascale De Souza
    From "Noir et Blanc": L'Exil selon Julia by Gisèle Pineau

    Evelyn O'Callaghan
    Surviving in No-Man's Land: The Pagoda by Patricia Powell

    María Cristina Rodríguez
    Rosario Ferré. The House on the Lagoon

    Tanya Saunders
    Cristina Garcia. The Aguero Sisters

    Jan Shinebourne
    Pauline Melville. The Ventriloquist's Tale

 
 

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