This is an exchange of letters between Leo Tolstoj and the Shakers, American communitarian religious groups. I transcribed them from original manuscripts or microfilms during my research at the Shaker library, Sabbathday ...

This article engages with the fiction African American women who turn to the Caribbean region in search of “their mothers gardens.” It also explores their extraordinary affinity with magical realist fiction produced by ...

The article critically examines the African American tradition of telling the stories inherited from mothers and grandmothers “the culture-bearing black women.” These stories, as Alice Walker puts it, are “accumulated ...

This paper theorizes Edwidge Danticat's book Krick? Krack! within the Black Atlantic framework which Danticat supplements with her focus on the Caribbean region and female experience, absent from Gilroy's agenda. She ...