Obsidian: Literature in the African Diaspora
Volume 6, Number 1
Spring/Summer 2005

Index Issue

Table of Contents

Note from the editor: Tom Lisk

Interviews

Mildred R. Mickle

An interview with Jaki Shelton Green, Winner of the 2003 North Carolina Award in Literature

 Essays

Kristen Halling

The Writing on the Wall: Re-reading Leon-Gontran Dama’s Graffiti

Kevin McGurder

To be Heard in Print: Black Gay Writers in 1980’s New York

Nickesia S. Gordon

On the Couch with Dr. Fraud: Insidious Trauma and Distorted Female Community in Gayl Jones’ Eva’s Man

Dawn Duke

Poetic Valuing of the Female Self: Selected Women’s Writings from Brazil, Cuba and Guyana

Sarah McClellan

The Nation of Mother and Child in the Work of Jackie Kay

Tyler T. Schmidt

“Womanish” and “Wily:” The Poetry of Wanda Coleman

Fiction

Candice L. Harper

Hairwashing 

Memoir

Sandra L. West

What’s in a Name, Ghana Mae Jane?

Poetry

Deborah Vaughan

Cats and Dogs

Ariono-jovan Labu

Sun Garden

No Chaser

Kenyetta N. Lovings

Headcount, 10:03 PM

Yvonne Jeffries

His coming was no unusual

Glenis Gale Redmond

The Unbearable Heat of South Carolina

Glo Jones

Miss Lula

Jesse Boy

Steve B. Katz

Julius the Prophet

Runner in the Dark

Camille T. Dungy

Vocabulary

Code

Every Word More Beautiful and Dangerous

Bro. Yao

Speaker

the art of war as friend fish in the house of my mother

truth commission

clouds

B.V. Marshall

Drum Soul-O

This Is Not For Your Eyes

Elen Gebreab

22 Mountain

Oliver Rice

A Couple of Theophanies