T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting. Negritude Women.
Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2002. 168 pp. $17.95 T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting's Negritude Women proffers an enlightening, revisionary analysis of the Negritude movement. Negritude, the term coined by the Martinican poet Aime Cesaire in the mid-1930s, signifies a new cultural and literary movement among Francophone African and...

Crossing the mangrove of order and prejudice.
Traversee de la mangrove, Maryse Conde's fifth novel and her first set solely in Guadeloupe, is structured around intertwined quests that reflect the search for identity grounding much of Caribbean literature. The death of its main protagonist, Francis Sancher, and his subsequent wake, provide the villagers of Riviere au...

Needed: a new brotherhood.
I am a French Caribbean married to a Senegalese. I really enjoy your magazine and send you a million thanks. The February 2004 issue was particularly dear to me because of the articles on the Diaspora. I do believe that Diasporan Africans (which include all people of...

Wifredo Lam and The 1940s Paris Art Scene.
I wish to clarify some information concerning the Cuban artist Wifredo Lam in Bennetta Jules-Rosette's article "Musee Dapper: New Directions for a Postcolonial Museum" (Summer 2002). Caption 7 on page 25 states that Lam was part of the Parisian avant-garde scene of the 1940s. The artist, however, did not...

Volcanoes in Human History.
Volcanoes in Human History. By JELLE ZEILINGA DE BOER and DONALD THEODORE SANDERS Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002, 295 pp. [pounds sterling]19.95. ISBN 0 691 05081 3 Over the last decade a number of books have appeared that have addressed various aspects of the interface...

WALFREDO DE LOS REYES III: The True Story of a Drumming Legend -- Part 1.
Born in Havana in 1933, Walfredo De Los Reyes III (better known in the United States as Walfredo Reyes, Sr.) invigorated his native city's percussive scene in the 1950s, when "his drum kit included a timbal, instead of one of the tom-toms, and incorporated two tumbadoras on his left...

Awakening Spaces: French Caribbean Popular Songs, Music, and Culture.
Awakening Spaces: French Caribbean Popular Songs, Music, and Culture. By BRENDA F. BERRIAN. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2000. xiv + 287 pp. ISBN 0-226-04456-4. Much of the critical attention on French Caribbean culture has focused on the rich literary domain and, with a few notable exceptions...

The astronomical longitude of Paramaribo.
Resumen En 1911 Van Stockum determinó la longitud astronómica de Paramaribo a partir de alturas absolutas de la Luna en combinación con observaciones a estrellas. Se prueba que la longitud astronómica de Paramaribo publicada por Roelofs en su libro Astronomy Applied to Land Surveying se...

Jean Bernabe, Jean-Luc Bonniol, Raphael Confiant, Gerry L'Etang (dir.), Au visiteur lumineux. Des iles creoles aux societes plurielles. Melanges offerts a Jean Benoist.
Jean BERNABÉ, Jean-Luc BONNIOL, Raphaël CONFIANT, Gerry L'ÉTANG (dir.), Au visiteur lumineux. Des îles créoles aux sociétés plurielles. Mélanges offerts à Jean Benoist. Petit-Bourg (Guadeloupe), Ibis Rouge, 2000, 716 p., bibliogr., index. C'est pour saluer Jean Benoist et son oeuvre que 48 auteurs nous livrent dans cet...

Maryse Conde et le theatre antillais.
Maryse Conde et le theatre antillais. By MELISSA L. MCKAY. (Francophone Cultures and Literatures, 36) New York: Peter Lang. 2002. $48.95. xii+ 142 pp. ISBN 0-8204-5262-9. Research in the area of Francophone and Creolophone theatres of the Caribbean is emerging in the English-speaking world, thanks to the...