Essays
Caribbean 2000: Still Here, Still Waiting
Catherine Den Tandt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
Literature, Federation, and the Intellectual's Nation: Rereading Lamming's The Emigrants
Imre Szeman . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Some Pitfalls of Caribbean Regionalism, Colonial Roots and Migratory Routes
Liz Deloughrey . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51
Writing Across the Caribbean Corridor: Afro-Hispanic Musings on Race and Negritude
Patricia D. Fox . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
A Caribbean Confederation? Cultural Representation of Cuban and Dominican Migrations to Puerto Rico
Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Two Spheres of Darkness: the [Dis]Indigenization of V. S. Naipaul
Sura P. Rath . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Coolie Woman Fictionalizing Political History: Janice Shinebourne's Memories of Violence
Vernique Bragard . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
The Colonial Curriculum and the Construction of the "Coolie-ness" in Lakshmi Persaud's Sastra and Butterfly in the Wind (Trinidad) and Jan Shinebourne's The Last English Plantation'(Guyana)
Brinda J. Mehta . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132
"Solidarity of Dreams": Searching for Unity in the Works of Edwidge Danticat, Ana Lydia Vega, Julia Alvarez and Christina Garcia
Myriam J. A. Chancy . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
In Flight from the Borderlines: Roses, Rivers, and Missing Haitian History in Marie Chauvet's 'Colere' and Edwidge Danticat's Krik? Krak! and The Farming of Bones
Carolyn Duffey . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Unwelcome Neighbors: The Haitian Popular Migration in the Writings of Some Caribbean Writers.
Marie-Jose n'Zengou-Tayo . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .171
