Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: The Spring of Her Look 1
1. "Rose is my mama, stanfaste is my papa": Hybrid Landscapes and
Sexualities in Surinamese Women's Oral Poetry 29
2. Darkening the Lily: The Erotics of Self-Making in Eliot Bliss's
Luminous Isle 68
3. Blue Countries, Dark Beauty: Opaque Desires in the Poetry of Ida Faubert
102
4. At the River of Washerwomen: Work, Water, and Sexual Fluidity in Mayotte
Capécia's I Am a Martinican Woman 136
5. Transforming Sugar, Transitioning Revolution: Male Womanhood and Lesbian
Eroticism in Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven 169
6. Breaking Hard against Things: Crossing between Sexual and Revolutionary
Politics in Dionne Brand's No Language in Neutral 201
Notes 233
Bibliography 257
Index 269
