LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
MAURICE A. LEE
CÉSAIRE’S BARD: SHAKESPEARE AND THE PERFORMANCE OF CHANGE IN CÉSAIRE’S UNE TEMPÊTE
RUSSELL WEST................................................................................1
JAMAICA KINCAID’S LUCY AND THE AESTHETICS OF DISIDENTIFICATION
VERONICA MAJEROL......................................................................17
CARIBBEAN IDENTITY: AN HISPANIC CARIBBEAN PERSPECTIVE
NICOLE ROBERTS.............................................................................29
DILEMMAS OF PLACE AND IDENTITY IN DIONNE BRAND’S PROSE POEM “NO LANGUAGE IS NEUTRAL”
VIOLETTA KRAKOVSKA..................................................................51
ORAL/SCRIBAL TRADITIONS IN POETRY: ROGER ABRAHAMS’ “MAN-OF-WORDS,” AND THE THEORIES OF THE “ETHNOGRAPHY OF SPEAKING”
SERAFIN ROLDAN-SANTIAGO.......................................................67
STORYTELLING IN THE DIASPORA: MAXINE CLAIR’S RATTLEBONE
ISABEL SOTO.......................................................................................79
DO I BELONG HERE?: IMAGES OF—FEMALE—BELONGING AND CULTURAL HYBRIDITY IN ERNA BRODBER’S MYAL, VELMA POLLARD’S HOMESTRETCH, AND CARYL PHILLIPS’S CAMBRIDGE
MARIKA PREZIUSO............................................................................85
THE INVISIBLE AFROMESTIZO OF MEXICO’S ATLANTIC COAST: THE FOLKLORE OF FOODWAYS AS A MARKER OF CULTURAL IDENTITY
RAYMOND HALL..................................................................................93
POSTMODERN DEVELOPMENTS IN MICHELLE CLIFF’S NO TELEPHONE TO HEAVEN AND ESMERALDA SANTIAGO’S WHEN I WAS PUERTO RICAN ROBERTO STRONGMAN...........................................................................97
THE NARRATIVE OF HOPE IN CUBAN FILMS REACTING TO THE SPECIAL PERIOD
JORGE BARRUETO............................................................................105
THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF DEATH IN MARYSE CONDÉ’S CROSSING THE MANGROVE AND JACQUES ROUMAIN’S MASTERS OF THE DEW
PHILLIP OJO..........................................................................................115
FRANTZ FANON IN NEW LIGHT: RECYCLING IN POSTCOLONIAL THEORY
SILVIA NAGY-ZEKMI..........................................................................129
JEAN RHYS’S CARIBBEAN SPACE-TIME
TOM SHEEHAN....................................................................................141
INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL ANTHONY
PASCALE DE SOUZA.........................................................................155
INTERVIEW WITH EDWIDGE DANTICAT
SANDY ALEXANDRE & RAVI Y. HOWARD...................................161
LEOVSKI’S BLUES
CYRIL DABYDEEN................................................................................175
REDFISH
JENNIFER DONICE LEWIS................................................................183
THE RETURN
WILLIAM WYETH..................................................................................189
UNDER THE BLUE
KEITH JARDIM......................................................................................195
