The Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context.
J. Michael Dash The Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998. Pp. 197. $42.50 J. Michael Dash's The Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context is a remarkable achievement of scholarship on French Caribbean literary history. Dash's...

Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory: Strategies of Language and Resistance.
Celia Britton. Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory: Strategies of Language and Resistance. Charlottesville. University Press of Virginia. 1999. 224 pages. $55 ($19.50 paper). isbn 0-8139-1848-0 (1849-9 paper). Celia Britton modestly positions her book on Edouard Glissant as a corrective to the frequent omission of the work of...

FIRE FROM THE MOUNTAIN.
FIRE FROM THE MOUNTAIN by Polly Pattullo (Constable, pb, pp217 9.99 [pounds sterling]) Montserrat hit the world's headlines for a few weeks in the summer of 1997 when a volcano in the Soufriere Hills spat scalding rocks and gases across the small Caribbean island killing 19 people....

Femmes des Antilles: Traces et voix.
Gisele Pineau, Marie Abraham. Femmes des Antilles: Traces et voix. Paris. Stock. 1998. 267 pages, ill. 130 F. isbn 2-234-04956-3. With the publication of Femmes des Antilles, her seventh book in as many years, Gisele Pineau has established herself not only as one of the most prolific...

Sailing the Caribbean.
THEY BLEND THE ROMANCE OF a private yacht with the space and luxuries of a cruise ship. Four new masted cruise ships are plying the clear, warm waters of the Caribbean, paying visits to lightly inhabited ports of call, remote harbors, and quiet islands inaccessible to larger ships. ...

Renting an old house in the French countryside; it takes advance planning, persistence.
Renting an old house in the French countryside It takes advance planning, persistence For a week or longer, you can set up house on a French farm or in a village. It's a chance to get acquainted with a small corner of France the way few...

Sartorius: Le roman des Batoutos.
Edouard Giissant. Sartorius: Le roman des Batoutos. Paris. Gallimard. 1999. 352 pages. 130 F. ISBN 2-07-075652-1. FROM LE QUATRIEME SIECLE (1964) to Tout-Monde (1993; see WLT 69:1, p. 205), Edouard Glissant pursued the saga of the Beluse and Longoue clans, those who suffered under slavery and its...

Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial Spas.
Curing the Colonizers: Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial Spas. By Eric T. Jennings (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. xii plus 272 pp. Cloth $74.95, Paper $21.95). The partaking of mineral waters at places such as Saratoga Springs, Marienbad and Bath at the end of the nineteenth...

Jean Rhys's postmodern narrative authority: Selina's patois in "Let Them Call It Jazz".
"In the train that evening I think myself lucky, for to walk about London on a Sunday with nowhere to go--that take the heart out of you," says Selina Davis, the narrator of Jean Rhys's 1962 short story, "Let Them Call It Jazz," as she heads to an apartment...

Tropics of cancer.
Use of a prohibited pesticide in the banana plantations of the French Caribbean has contributed to a "health disaster" on the islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique, according to a top cancer specialist. Banana cultivation is among the largest industries in France's Caribbean territories, with Guadeloupe and Martinique...