Susheila Nasta and Christine Archer
Editorial Note
Kathleen McLuskie and Lyn Innes
Women and African Literature
Merle Collins
The Writer in Residence
Keith Thomas
A Shared Teaching Experience with Merle Collins
Muriel Lynn Rubin
Adolescence and Autobiographical Fiction: Teaching Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
Sandi Russell
Interviews Paule Marshall
Maggie Butcher
Interviews Grace Nichols
Jan Shinebourne
Extract from The Last English Plantation
Lois-Andrea Ferguson
Fiction: Pops
Mahadai Das
Poems: Bones and Secrets
Katherine Gallagher
Poems: Meeting Bessie Head in Adelaide, March, 1984 and Political Prisoners
Jean Arasanayagam
Puberty Rites and other poems
Mahadai Das
Poem: The Growing Tip
Velma Pollard
Crown Point and other poems
Reviews
Liz Gerschel
Olive Senior Summer Lightning and Other Stories
Lyn Innes
Ravinder Randhawa A Wicked Old Woman
Marion Molteno A Language in Common
Denise deCaires Narain
Lauretta Ngcobo, ed Let It Be Told
Rhonda Cobham and Merle Collins, ed Watchers and Seekers
Phyllis Pollard
Carole Boyce Davies and Anne Adams Graves, ed Studies of Women in African Literature
Eldred Jones, Eustace Palmer and Majorie Jones, ed Writers in African Literature Today
Alison Archer
Toni Morrison Beloved
