Preface
A Note on the Structure of the Volume
Introduction
Part 1. Africa in the Caribbean Imagination
1. Of Laughter and Kola Nuts; or, What Does Africa Have to Do with the African Diaspora? / Faith Lois Smith
2. From Africa to "The Islands": New World Voyages in the Fiction of Maryse Condé and Paule Marshall / Anthea Morrison
Part 2. Race, Gender, and Agency in the Shadow of Slavery
3. Mary Rose: "White" African Jamaican Woman? Race and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica / Linda L. Sturtz
4. Trading Places: Market Negotiations in Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands / Antonia MacDonald-Smythe
5. Blacks in the White Imagination: Race in the Investigation of Rape on Nineteenth-Century Emigrant Ships to the Colonial Caribbean / Verene A. Shepherd
6. Maria Jones of Africa, St. Vincent, and Trinidad / Brinsley Samaroo
7. Slavery, Marriage, and Gender Relations in Eastern Yorubaland, 1875–1920 / Olatunji Ojo
8. On Equal/Unequal Footing with Men: Diaspora Linkages and Issues of Gender and Education Policy in Barbados, 1875–1945 / Janice Mayers
Part 3. Building Diaspora in the Web of Empire
9. Amy Ashwood Garvey and the Nigerian Progress Union / Hakim Adi
10. "Crack Kernels, Crack Hitler": Export Production Drive and Igbo Women during the Second World War / Gloria Chuku
11. Intersections: Nigerian Episodes in the Careers of Three West Indian Women / LaRay Denzer
12. Immigrant Voices in Cyberspace: Spinning Continental and Diasporan Africans into the World Wide Web / Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome
Notes on Contributors
Index
