Themanummer over de Franstalige literatuur van Guadeloupe en Martinique. Bevat de volgende bijdragen: Introduction/ door Maryse Condé: (Re)Figuring colonialism/ door H. Adlai Murdoch: A shift toward the inner voice and créolité/ Ann Armstrong Scarboro: Inscriptions of exile/ door Françoise Lionnet: Edouard Glissant: Towards a literature of orality/ door Michèle Praeger: Reading and writing the body/ door Arthur Flannigan-Saint-Aubin: Feminism, race and difference/ door Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert: A woman's voice: Marie-Magdeleine Carbet/ door E. Anthony Hurley: A question of questions through a mangrove wood/ door Christophe Lamiot: Narrative and discursive strategies in Maryse Condé's Traversee de la mangrove/ door Suzanne Crosta: Mapping the mangrove: empathy and survival in Traversée de la mangrove/ door Ellen W. Munley: History and memory/ door Elizabeth Wilson: A summary overview of Antillean literature in Creole/ door Georges-Henri Léotin: Studies in Caribbean and South American literature: a bibliography/ door Kathleen M. Balutansky.