ariel 33:2, 2002
 
Introduction
Notes from the New Editor
1
Maria Caridad Casas
Orality and the Body in the Poetry of Lillian Allen and Dionne Brand: Towards an Embodied Social Semiotics
7
Chinmoy Banerjee
The Erotics of Resistance and Postcolonial Self-Fashioning in Annie John
33
Jude A. Agho
Ayi Kwei Armah’s Osiris Rising: New Wine in an Old Wine Skin
57
Kenneth W. Harrow
Bernth Lindfors: The Archive and the Question of Truth
71
Interview
 
 
Christian Olbey
Dionne Brand in Conversation
87
Poems
 
 
Naveed Alam
Mangoes
86
Shelley Walia
Stony Words
103
Steven Sher
People of the Word
104
Louis Phillips
Victor
105
Louis Phillips
The Poem From Outer Space
106
S. Shankar
On an Accidental Encounter in an Airport
137
Book Reviews
 
 
Vinayak Chaturvedi, ed.
Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial. (Stephen Slemon)
107
Paul Breslin
Nobody’s Nation: Reading Derek Walcott. (Robert D. Hamner)
112
Brian Jarvis
Postmodern Cartographies: The Geographical Imagination in Contemporary American Culture. (Brenda Austin-Smith)
115
Bruce King
Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life. (Robert D. Hamner)
118
Kenneth Mostern
Autobiography and Black Identity Politics: Racialization in Twentieth-Century America. (Jeanne Perrault)
120
George Bornstein
Material Modernism: The Politics of the Page. (Paulo M. Campos)
123
Paul Gilroy
Against Race: Imaging Political Culture Beyond the Color Line. (Camille Isaacs)
125
Chinosole
African Diaspora and Autobiographics: Skeins of Self and Skin. (M.C. Davlin)
127
Peter Morey
Fictions of India: Narrative and Power. (Melanie Maria Just)
131
Bill Ashcroft
Post-Colonial Transformation. (Jim Hannan)
133
Notes on Contributors
 
138