History and fiction: black narrative in Latin America and the Caribbean / William Luis -- Socrates among the weeds: blacks and history in Carpentier's Explosion in a Cathedral / Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria -- Slavery, racism and autobiography in two early black writers: Juan Francisco Manzano and Martín Morúa Delgado / Richard L. Jackson -- Yoruba presence: from Nigerian oral literature to contemporary Cuban narrative / Julia Cuervo Hewitt -- V.S. Naipaul and the question of identity / Selwyn R. Cudjoe -- Toward synthesis in the New World: Caribbean literature in English / O.R. Dathorne -- the maroon figure in Caribbean Francophone prose / Juris Silenieks -- The new political statement in Haitian fiction / Joseph Ferdinand -- The world of the West Indian black in Central America: the recent works of Quince Duncan / Lisa E. Davis -- Juyungo/Reading writing / Jonathan Tittler -- Black character: toward a dialectical presentation in three South American novels / Carol Beane -- Palmares and the freed slave in Afro-Brazilian literature / Ronald M. Rassner -- The Romance Bárbaro as an agent of disappearance: Henrique Coelho Netto's Rei Negro and its conventions / Lemuel A. Johnson
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-250) and index
