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  1. Editor's Notes
  2. Charles H. Rowell
  3. pp. vii-xi
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0187
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Poetry

  1. Orange
  2. Elizabeth Alexander
  3. p. 1007
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0135
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  1. Gleam
  2. Holly Bass
  3. p. 987
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0136
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  1. Dream Lubricant
  2. Herman Beavers
  3. pp. 1000-1001
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0137
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  1. The Writing Conference: A Paper Dragon
  2. Doralee E. Brooks
  3. pp. 1020-1021
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0138
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  1. Jacques
  2. Bill Buege
  3. pp. 896-897
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0139
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  1. Michael
  2. Bill Buege
  3. pp. 898-899
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0140
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  1. Machines
  2. Anthony Butts
  3. pp. 950-951
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0142
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  1. Yellow Archipelago
  2. Anthony Butts
  3. pp. 952-953
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0143
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  1. Lazarus
  2. Lucille Clifton
  3. pp. 981-982
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0147
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  1. For Sonia Sanchez on the Publication of Shake Loose My Skin, 1999
  2. Toi Derricotte
  3. p. 1027
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0154
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  1. Lifting Daddy Floating
  2. R. Erica Doyle
  3. pp. 984-985
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0155
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  1. Ma Ramon
  2. R. Erica Doyle
  3. p. 983
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0151
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  1. Florida
  2. Cornelius Eady
  3. p. 1013
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0146
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  1. Middle Ear Recitation (a transcription of Cecil Taylor's "Erzulie Maketh Scent")
  2. Brent Hayes Edwards
  3. pp. 771-774
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0156
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  1. Interglacial
  2. John Alexander Frazier
  3. p. 1002
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0161
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  1. The Young Girl
  2. January Gill
  3. p. 1009
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0162
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  1. The Sight
  2. Kendra Hamilton
  3. pp. 994-995
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0164
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  1. At the Moment: While listening to John Coltrane's "Moments Notice" on NPR
  2. Michael S. Harper
  3. pp. 977-978
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0166
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  1. Touch
  2. Terrance Hayes
  3. pp. 1014-1015
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0168
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  1. Pest
  2. Major Jackson
  3. p. 986
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0171
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  1. Buying a Ticket
  2. Valerie Jean
  3. pp. 998-999
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0172
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  1. Philly in the Light
  2. Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
  3. p. 993
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0173
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  1. Steel Town Jollies
  2. Brandon D. Johnson
  3. pp. 988-989
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0174
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  1. October Ritual
  2. Devorah Major
  3. pp. 1005-1006
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0160
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  1. The Morning Hour
  2. Dawn Lundy Martin
  3. pp. 1016-1018
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0178
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  1. Elizabeth Alexander at the Painted Bride Arts Center
  2. Lenard D. Moore
  3. p. 1008
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0179
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  1. A Woman's Virtue: Sister I Need to Hear You Sing That Song
  2. Opal Moore
  3. pp. 979-980
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0180
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  1. Some Time
  2. Renee K. Moore
  3. p. 996
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0181
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  1. Oils
  2. Gregory Pardlo
  3. pp. 1024-1025
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0182
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  1. El Magnifico
  2. D. J. Renegade
  3. pp. 1022-1023
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0185
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  1. On Seeing Your Portrait, Phillis Wheatley
  2. James Richardson
  3. p. 975
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0186
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  1. We Name Her Took Sick
  2. Millicent Rucker
  3. p. 1012
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0188
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  1. Instructions from the Flight Crew to a Poet of African Descent Living in a State of Emergency
  2. Kate Rushin
  3. p. 976
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0189
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  1. A Poem For My Father
  2. Sonia Sanchez
  3. p. 992
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0192
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  1. Sequences
  2. Sonia Sanchez
  3. pp. 990-991
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0190
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  1. The Ballad of Anita Hill
  2. Evie Shockley
  3. pp. 1003-1004
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0191
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  1. The Ur-Spring of Geometry
  2. Jonathan Smith
  3. pp. 1010-1011
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0196
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  1. Claudia and Love
  2. Mark I. Smith
  3. p. 871
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0194
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  1. Witness: (Alajuela, 1954)
  2. Mark I. Smith
  3. p. 870
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0193
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  1. Primadonna
  2. Christina Springer
  3. p. 1019
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0197
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  1. A Song on the End of the Cuban Revolution
  2. Virgil Suarez
  3. p. 800
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0199
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  1. Diaspora
  2. Virgil Suarez
  3. p. 799
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0198
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  1. La Amargura/Bitterness
  2. Virgil Suarez
  3. pp. 801-802
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0200
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  1. Red Whorehouse Sofa
  2. Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
  3. p. 997
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0201
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  1. The Lover: New Delhi 1965
  2. Reetika Vazirani
  3. pp. 853-854
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0202
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  1. If My Enemies Sing of My Death: Sango to Ono Sango
  2. Afaa M. Weaver
  3. p. 1026
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0203
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Fiction

  1. Storm
  2. G. Winston James
  3. pp. 893-895
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0170
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  1. A Country Wedding
  2. Dany Laferriere, Carrol F. Coates
  3. pp. 903-909
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0175
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  1. The Winged Monster
  2. Clarence Major
  3. pp. 803-807
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0141
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  1. Precious Lord
  2. David Pilgrim
  3. pp. 825-830
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0183
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Interviews

  1. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Nor Staged: An Interview with Ben Caldwell
  2. Ben Caldwell, Kenneth Bowman
  3. pp. 808-824
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0144
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  1. An Interview with Bebe Moore Campbell
  2. Bebe Moore Campbell, Jane Campbell
  3. pp. 954-972
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0145
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  1. An Interview with Dany Laferriere
  2. Dany Laferriere, Carrol F. Coates
  3. pp. 910-921
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0176
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  1. An Interview with Farah Jasmine Griffin
  2. Farah Jasmine Griffin, Charles H. Rowell
  3. pp. 872-892
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0163
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  1. An Interview with Brent Hayes Edwards
  2. Brent Hayes Edwards, Charles H. Rowell
  3. pp. 784-797
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0158
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  1. An Interview with Phillip Brian Harper
  2. Phillip Brian Harper, Charles H. Rowell
  3. pp. 855-869
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0167
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Nonfiction

  1. Dany Laferriere: A Bio-Bibliographical Chronology
  2. Carrol F. Coates
  3. pp. 924-925
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0149
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  1. Meet Dany Laferriere, American
  2. Carrol F. Coates
  3. pp. 922-923
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0148
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  1. Dany Laferriere: A Bibliography
  2. Carrol F. Coates, Dennis F. Essar
  3. pp. 926-929
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0150
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  1. Cave Canem: An Introduction
  2. Toi Derricotte
  3. p. 974
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0153
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  1. from Abecedarium
  2. Brent Hayes Edwards
  3. pp. 775-783
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0157
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  1. Time and Space in Dany Laferriere's Autobiographical Haitian Novels
  2. Dennis F. Essar
  3. pp. 930-946
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0159
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  1. Black Skin, White Tissues: Local Color and Universal Solvents in the Novels of Charles Johnson
  2. Richard Hardack
  3. pp. 1028-1053
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0165
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  1. In Memory of Sherley Anne Williams: "Some One Sweet Angel Chile" 1944-1999
  2. Mae Henderson
  3. pp. 763-767
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0169
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  1. Shutting Up the Subaltern: Silences, Stereotypes, and Double-Entendre in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea
  2. Carine M. Mardorossian
  3. pp. 1071-1090
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0177
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  1. Dany Laferriere and the Autobiography of Disorderly Past Times
  2. Jean Prophete, Carrol F. Coates
  3. pp. 947-949
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0184
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  1. from Meditations on History (1980)
  2. Sherley Anne Williams
  3. pp. 768-770
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0204
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  1. Excavating the New Republic: Post-colonial Subjectivity in Achebe's Things Fall Apart
  2. Christopher Wise
  3. pp. 1054-1070
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0205
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  1. Nigger Peasants from France: Missing Translations of American Anxieties on Race and the Nation
  2. Michelle M. Wright
  3. pp. 831-852
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0206
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Reviews

  1. Intimacy (review)
  2. Frederick Luis Aldama
  3. pp. 1097-1100
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0134
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  1. The Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context (review)
  2. Gene Andrew Jarrett
  3. pp. 1094-1097
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0207
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  1. Caribbean Creolization: Reflections on the Cultural Dynamics of Language, Literature, and Identity (review)
  2. Faith Smith
  3. pp. 1091-1094
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0195
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  1. Contributors
  3. pp. 1101-1107
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1999.0152
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