Front Cover of Vol 2 No 1


Volume 2 Number 1 September 2005

Contents


Editorial

Guest Editor: Victor J. Ramraj


Monica Bungaro University of Birmingham

(In)Appropriate Others: Black Youth Female Identities in Andrea Levy’s Novels


Nancy Ellen Batty Red Deer College

From "Miss Lou" to Star Trek's Zulu : The Multiple Communities of Nalo Hopkinson



Corey Coates University of Calgary

Nothing Everywhere”: Naming Self and Society in the Poetry of Lorna Goodison

and Derek Walcott


Camille Isaacs University of Calgary/Toronto

History Turned “Upside Dung”: The English as Underdog in Zadie Smith’s

White Teeth


Andrea Medovarski York University

Tessa McWatt’s Out of My Skin: “Belonging is what you give yourself”


Pamela mccallum & chris olbey University of Calgary & University of California

Standing in the Middle of the World Cracking”: Class, Cultural Memory, and Collectivity in Dionne Brand’s At the Full and Change of the Moon


Melanie Otto Trinity College, Dublin

The Shallow Grave of the Text: African Narratives in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea and Pauline Melville’s “Erzulie”


Jordan Stouck University of Lethbridge

A Garden of Her Own”: Caribbean Canadian Spaces and Identities in Shani Mootoo’s Fiction


POEMS


KWAME DAWES, University of South Carolina

The Habits of Love” and “The Things She Knows”



REVIEW ARTICLES


David Granger University of Guyana

Clem Seecharan Sweetening Bitter Sugar


Hyacinth Simpson, Ryerson University

Conference Report “Caribbean Migrations: Negotiating Borders”




BOOK REVIEWS


Frank Birbalsingh York University

Ramabai Espinet The Swinging Bridge


Mark Troy Umea University, Sweden

David Dabydeen Our Lady of Demerara


Harald Leusmann Ball State University

Fred D’Aguiar Bethany Bettany


Mariam Pirbhai Wilfrid Laurier University

Cyril Dabydeen Imaginary Origins: Selected Poems 1970-2002.


Jan Shinebourne London

Mark Mc Watt Suspended Sentences



Notes on Contributors