Obsidian: Literature in the African Diaspora
Volume 5, Number 2
Fall/Winter 2004

Special Issue: Black British Writing

Note from the Editor: Joyce Pettis

Interviews: Black British Writing

Sofia Munoz Valdivieso
Interview with Bernadine Evaristo

Maria Helena Lima
Interview with Kadija George Sesay

Karen Flynn and Evelyn Marrast
Dubbin' Revolushun: An Interview with D'bi Young

Essays: Black British Writing

Maria Helena Lima
'The Margin at the Centre': Teaching Black British Women Writers

David Ellis
'Transatlantic Passages': Lamming, Phillips, and the Course of Black Writing in Britain

Rebecca Dyer
Generations of Black Londoners: Echoes of 1950s Caribbean Migrants' Voices in Victor Headley's Yardie and Zadie Smith's White Teeth

Fiction

Jesse Reid Lawson
Black Mountain

Gerald M. Smith
Hollis Earl's Homecoming

Poetry

Tiffany Austin
Screen Doors

Willie James King
Insearch of Angela

Ariono-jovan Labu
What About the Tuna?

William Archila
At Minton's

Melvin E. Lewis
Hearts III

Christopher Stanard
Greelyville
Charleston

Other Essays

Heather Duerre Humann
The Question of Mercy: Gender and Commodification in Ama Ata Aidoo's 'Two Sisters'

Ingrid M. Reneau
Maimouna's Praisesongs: Modeling Nationhood in Sembene Ousmane's God's Bits of Wood

Noelle Morrissette *
'Past Performances' of the Negro: James Weldon Johnson's Black Manhattan

Book Review

Helena Woodard
Innes, C.L. A History of Black and Asian Writing in Britain, 1700-2000

Contributors

* We incorrectly spelled Noelle's last name as "Morrisette" in the print version of the journal. "Morrissette" is the correct spelling.