Volume 6, Number 2, / Volume 7, Number 1 Fall/Winter-Spring/ Summer 2006
Double Issue
Obsidian III: Literature in the African Diaspora
Volume 6, Number 2/ Volume 7, Number 1
Fall/Winter 2005—Spring/Summer 2006
Double Issue
Table of Contents
Note from the editor: Tom Lisk
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
Edwidge Danticat
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