XXVI:1
2004
Caribbean

     
    Critical Essays
    Beverley Ormerod Noakes, 'The "Brown Skin Gal" in Fact and Fiction' 
    Helen Gilbert, '"Let them know you have broughtupcy": Childhood and Child-Subects in Olive Senior's Short Stories'
    Sue Thomas, 'Jean Rhys's Cardboard Doll's Houses'
    Paul Sharrad, 'Cloth and Self-Definition in Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother'
    Karina Smith, 'Demystifying "Reality" in Sistren's Bellywoman Bangarang'
    Wayne Brown, 'New Jamaican Poets'
    Bonnie Thomas, 'Reflections on the French Caribbean Woman: The Femme Matador in Fact and Fiction'
     
    Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw, 'Cyclone Culture in Paysage Pineaulien'
    Eric Doumerc, 'Jamaica's First Dub Poets: Early Jamaican Deejaying as a Form of Oral Poetry''
     
    Benedicte Ledent, '"Of, and not of", this Place: Attachment and Detachment in Caryl Phillips' A Distant Shore'
    Philip Nanton, 'Frank A. Collymore: A Man of the Threshold'
     
    Evelyn O'Callaghan, 'Settling into "Unhomeliness": Displacement in Selected Caribbean and Caribbean Canadian Women's Writing'
    Dorothy Jones, 'Writing the Silence: Fiction and Poetry of Marlene Nourbese Philip' 
    Rhona Hammond, 'Reappraising "Value Judgements on At and the Question of Macho Attitudes: The Case Study of Derek Walcot" by Elaine Savory Fido'
    Marta Jimena Cabrera, 'The Dream of an Order: Race and Gender in the Project of An-Other Caribbean History'
     
    Luz Mercedes Hincapie, 'Race and Gender at the Chicago Columbian Exposition, 1893: A Cuban Woman's Perspective'
    Charles Hawksley, 'The 2007 Cricket World Cup in the Caribbean: A Straight Drive to Reigonal Integration''
     

    Review Essay
    B.W. Higman, 'History, Heritage and Memory in Modern Jamaica'

    Fiction
    Sharon Leach, 'Lapdance' 
    Cyril Dabydeen, 'Leovski's Blues' 

    Poetry
    Olive Senior, 'Woodpecker', 'The First House', 'Taino Genesis', 'Maize'
    Gwyneth Barber Wood, 'For Rara'
    Frances Coke, 'A Mother's Prayers'
    Delores Gauntlett, 'Crown of Thorns'
    Neil Morgan, 'Garden Scene'
    Verna George, 'Seasons'
    Andrew Stone, 'The Market Muse'
    Safiya Sinclair, 'Silver'
    Andrew Miller, 'Rum Bar Story #5'
    Maxine Clark, 'Breakfast', 'Home', 'Pining', 'Caliban', 'My Caliban'
    Benjamin Zephaniah, 'Having a Word', 'Carnival Days', 'Knowing Me'

    Interview 
    Benjamin Zephaniah in Interview with Eric Doumerc

    Cover 
    'Agnes Hewett (1857-1957)', a Jamaican brown-skin gal (photograph courtesy of Beverely Noakes)