Abreast with history: Stradanus's America and Grace Nichol's fat black woman -- What it means to be modern: M.P. Shiel's 'The purple cloud' -- Scapegoating the Mulattos: Maryse Condé's 'La Migration des coeurs -- Before and after Ovid: metamorphosis in Marlene Nourbese Philip and Gabriel García Márquez -- Romances that matter: Lady Mary Wroth's 'The Countesse of Montgomerie Urania' and Erna Brodber's 'Jane and Louisa will soon come home' -- Brushing history against the grain: Derek Walcott's 'Tiepolo's hound'
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-189) and index