Arms akimbo: Africana women in contemporary literature

Psychic rage and response: the enslaved and the enslaver in Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose / Emma Waters-Dawson

Voyages beyond lust and lactation: the climacteric as seen in novels by Sylvia Wynter, Beryl Gilroy, and Paule Marshall / Janice Lee Liddell

A woman's art; a woman's craft: the self in Ntozake Shange's Sassafras, cypress, and indigo / Carol Marsh-Lockett

Coming home to herself: autonomy and self-conversion in Flora Nwapa's One is enough / Australia Tarver

When difference is not the dilemma: the black woman couple in African American women's fiction / Yakini B. Kemp

"Devouring gods" and "Sacrificial animals": The male-female relationship in Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes: a love story / Wei-hsiung (Kitty) Wu

Snapshots of childhood life in Jamaica Kincaid's fiction / Brenda F. Berrian

Fire and ice: the socioeconomics of romantic love in Elizabeth Nunez-Harrell's When rocks dance / Thelma B. Thompson-Deloatch

Agents of pain and redemption in Sapphire's Push / Janice Lee Liddell

Romantic love and the individual in novels by Mariama B., Buchi Emecheta, and Bessie Head / Yakini B. Kemp

The politics of exile: Ama Ata Aidoo's Our sister Killjoy / Gay Wilentz

"Sense make befoh book": Grenadian popular culture and the rhetoric of revolution in Merle Collins's Angel and the Colour of forgetting / Carolyn Cooper

Meditations on her/story: Maryse Conde's I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem and the slave narrative tradition / Paula C. Barnes

Guyana's historical sociology and the novels of Beryl Gilroy and Grace Nichols / Erna Brodber

Textual deviancy and cultural syncretism: romantic fiction as a subversive strain in Africana women's writing / Jane Bryse and Kari Dako

"A girl marries a monkey": the folktale as an expression of value and change in society / N.J. Opoku-Agyemang

Revolutionary brilliance: the Afrofemcentric aesthetic / Zain A. Muse (Omisola Alleyne)