No 8 (2013)

Caribbean Women: Riding the Waves of Resistance (Special Issue)

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The special-issue on Caribbean women is guest-edited by Professor Opal Palmer Adisa, an award-winning poet and prose writer with 14 titles to her credit. She is the recipient of the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award for Tamarind and Mango Women (1992) and won a Pushcart Prize for her short story, "Duppy Get Her" (1987).

Table of Contents

Editorial

Cover Art of Caribbean Women: Riding the Waves of Resistance
Africa Knowledge Project
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Introducing Caribbean Women Riding The Waves Of Resistance
Opal Palmer Adisa
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Creative Works and Articles

For Difficult Daughters, Ribs, Mother Of Water
Danielle Boodoo-Fortune
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Pieces Of Me, Lessons From My Father
Darlene Russell
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Canefield, Succubus
Denise Da Costa
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Star-Apple, Through
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
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Paper Boats, Royal Poinciana, Behind Dasheen Leaves And Up Star-Apple Trees, Moonshine Babies
Shauna Morgan Kirlew
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The Easter Rara, Light Thief
Danielle Legros Georges
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Exogenesis, A History Of Me As Told By My Mother, Disconnect
Teneile Warren
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To Pam And All Sisters Africa
Regina Jennings
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No Hablo Espanol- Ah Don Speak Spanish, Speaking In Other Tongues
Angeley Crawford
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When I Was A Little Girl
Julia Petitfrere
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Killing Columbus: The Transformation Of Whiteness In A Caribbean Imaginal Landscape
Helen Klonaris
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Saddle, Pareo Woman, Take This Back
Nancy Anne Miller
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Home, Baby Bird
Lelawattee Manoo-Rahming
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The Caribbean Affirmation, Carib Woman
Teju Adisa-Farrar
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Unforgotten, Call It By Its Name
Jessica S. Samuel
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Horizon, The Lost Art of Ventriloquism
Cheryl Walker
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New Dance Steps To A Jamaican Beat: A Conversation With Olive Senior
Robin Brooks
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Negotiating The Ambiguous Narrative Voice Of Myriam Warner-Vieyra's Juletane
Roselyne M. Jua
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History Of The(Ir) Voice(Lessness): Jamaican Language(S) In Alecia Mckenzie's Short Stories
Giuseppe Sofo
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Bridging Identity: Both/And Thinking In No Telephone To Heaven
Jeannette E. Riley
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I Will Pay For This Fearlessness: Revolutionary Lyricism In Dionne Brand's In Another Place, Not Here
Belinda Deneen Wallace
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Grow. Daughter, Go.
Teneile Warren
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Representations of Africa: Guinea, Vodun and Ancestry in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory
Rachel Thompson
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We Forgive You, Let Her Rot, Threadbare Coat
Nganga wa Muchiri
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Unnamed
Rae Voisin
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Libation
Angelique V. Nixon
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Strange
Laila Haidarali
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The Way She Was, Closing Doors, Her Majesty's Seal, Potiphar's Wife
Paulette A. Ramsay
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This Story Has No Title, To Know, Me Nuh Me Mada, The Defining Line
Opal Palmer Adisa
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Visual Art Of Toni Pressley-Sanon
Toni Pressley-Sanon
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The Tongue Of Poetry, Woman Like Me, Rising Out Of My Mothers Shadow
Eunice Heath-Tate
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One Cent
Darlene Russell
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Oracle Of The Zemi
Kristine Simelda
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Beyond Feminism: Embracing & Practicing Womanism In The Caribbean And The Diaspora
Cherise Charleswell
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