Since the mid-1980s, scholarly interest in postcolonial (including Caribbean and African) writing has grown considerably in most literature departments at colleges and universities in the United States and elsewhere. This volume was prepared to meet that rising need. The writers included in DLB Volume 117 hail from Gambia, Ghana, Guyana, St. Lucia, Dominica, Nigeria, and Jamaica. All but one, Olaudah Equiano who wrote in the 18th century, are men...