Obsidian: Literature in the African Diaspora
Volume 6, Number 2 / Volume 7, Number 1
Fall/Winter-Spring/ Summer 2006

Double Issue

Note from the editor: Tom Lisk

Issue: Volume 6, Number 2

A Tribute to Octavia E. Butler

Sandra Y. Govan

Sometimes I Sit Here, and I Wonder…Octavia E. Butler Passed This Way Once 1947-2006 

Interviews

Sandra Y. Govan

Going to See the Woman: A Visit with Octavia E. Butler

Book Review

Sandra y. Govan

Fledgeling

Fiction

Octavia E. Butler

The Book of Martha

Essays

Angela Warfield

Reassessing the Utopian Novel: Octavia Butler, Jacques Derrida, and the Impossible Future of Utopia

Rebecca Wanzo

Apocalyptic Empathy: A Parable of Postmodern Sentimentality

Kimberly J. Ruffin

Parable of a 21st Century Religion: Octavia Butler’s Afrofuturistic Bridge between Science and Religion

Gregory Hampton

Kindred: History, Revision, and (Re) memory of Bodies

Thelma Shinn Richard

Defining Kindred: Octavia Butler’s Postcolonial Perspective

Art

Lydia Thompson

The Gathering

Mary Motley Kalergis

From Love in Black And White

Bessie Harvey

Golden Dreams

Bien-Amie Sylvian

Voodoo Dance

Issue: Volume 7, Number 1

Memoir

Edwidge Danticat

Becoming Brazilian

Essay

Newtona Johnson

Challenging Internal Colonialism: Edwidge Danticat’s Feminist Emancipatory Enterprise

Donna Weir-Soley

Voudoun Symbolism in The Farming of Bones

Nandini Dhar

Memory, Gender, Race and Class: Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones

Jennifer C. Rossi

“ Let the words bring wings to our feet:” Negotiating Exile and Trauma through Narrative in Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory

Joan Conwell

Papa’s Masks: Roles of the Father in Danticat’s The Dew Breaker

Sarah Callahan

Passageways of Remembrance

Poetry

Harry Reed

Savannah Wind Song

Abayomi Animashaun

Markers West of the Ordinary

Ramona Hyman

Homebound 6

Homebound 7

Abayomi Animashaun

The Way of the Moon

Lenard D. Moore

Black Oscar

Carletta Carrington Wilson

alphabet of the captured