Introductions: black women writing worlds - textual production, dominance feminism and the critical voice. Part 1 Conversations: re-creating ourselves all over the world - a conversation with Paule Marshall, Omolara Ogundipe-Leslie; women write about the things that move them - a conversation with Tsitsi Dangarembga, Flora Veit-Wild; we speak because we dream - conversations with Merle Collins in London on June 17, 1991 and May 28, 1992, Brenda Berrian; culture and liberation in Zimbabwe - African women in conversation, Ifi Amadiume and Nzinga; Latin American lesbians speak on black identity, Juanita Ramos, ed., et al; feminism, development and peace, Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana and Miriam Tlali; Chiriboga - a conversation, Carol Beame; affirming the right to be revolutionary - Assata an interview, Rosemari Mealy. Part 2 Critical responses: Orisha circling her house - race as (con)text in Morejon's poetic discourse, Miriam de Costa-Willis; joining our differences - the problem of lesbian subjectivity among women of colour, Gladys M. Jimenez-Munoz; women's writing and the politics of South Africa - the ambiguous role of Nadine Gordimer, Thelma Ravell-Pinto; bodies in silence - the missing diaspora in African literature, Tess Osonye Onwueme; history, identity and the constitution of the female subject - Maryse Conde's Tituba, Jeanne Garane; black women writing in Ecuador, Carol Beame; the search for identity in Afro-Brazilian women's writing - a literary history, Celeste D. Mann; commercial deportation as rite of passage in black women's novels, Joyce Hope Scott; the epistolary voice and voices of indigenous feminism in Mariama Ba's "Une si longue lettre", Angelita Reyes; women, literature and politics - Haitian popular migration as viewed by Marie-Therese Colimon and the Haitian female writer, Marie-Jose N'Zengou-Tayo; Aida Cartagena Portalatin - a literary life, Moca, Dominican Republic, Daisy Cocco de Filippis; strategies of identity in Afro-Ecuadorian fiction - Chiriboga's "Bajo la piel de los tambores (Under the Skin of the Drums)", Carol Beame; Zora Neale Hurston - a subversive reading, bell hooks; who can take the multitude and lock it in a cage? - Noemia De Sousa, Micere Mugo, Ellen Kuzwayo, three African women's voices of resistance, Arlene A. Elder.
