Femspec Vol 6, Issue 1, 2005

Editorial Remarks

GWENDOLYN D. POUGH and YOLANDA HOOD. "Speculative Black Women: Magic, Fantasy, and the Supernatural"

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Criticism

JERRILYN MCGREGORY. "Nalo Hopkinson's Approach to Speculative Fiction" 

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GRETCHEN MICHLITSCH. "Breastfeeding Mother Rescues City: Nalo Hopkinson's Ti-Jeanne as Superhero" 

KATHY DAVIS PATTERSON. "Haunting Back: Vampire Subjectivity in The Gilda Stories" 

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TERESA N. WASHINGTON. "Power of the Word/Power of the Works: the Signifying African Soul of Africana Women’s Literature" 

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GINA WISKER. "Your Buried Ghosts Have A Way of tripping You Up: Revisioning and Mothering in African American and Afro-Caribbean Womens Speculative Horror" 

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SARAH WOOD. "Subversion through Inclusion: Octavia Butlers Interrogations of Religion in Wild Seed and Xenogenesis" 

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Speech

NALO HOPKINSON. "Address Given at The College of New Jersey, Department of African American Studies, 30th Anniversary Symposia: Afrofuturism: Womanist Paradigms for the New Millennium" 

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Fiction

MARCIA DOUGLAS. "Marie-Ma" 

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KIINI IBURA SALAAM. "K-USH: The Legend of the Last Wero" 

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ANDREA SHAW. "Jus’ a Pinch of the Yellow Powder"

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Poetry

HELEN CRUMP. "Morning Wake-up Sun" 

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ASERET SIN. "Poetrix" 

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ASERET SIN. "Sister Ancestor" 

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Interviews

YOLANDA HOOD. "Interview with Tananarive Due" 

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GWENDOLYN D. POUGH. "Interview with L. A. Banks" 

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Reviews

CANDICE M. JENKINS. "Review of Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism" 

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GRETCHEN J. MICHLITSCH. "Review of The Salt Roads" 

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KATHY DAVIS PATTERSON. "Review of Minion: A Vampire Huntress Legend"

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JENNIFER THORINGTON SPRINGER. "Review of Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction"

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ALICIA THOMAS. "Review of The Awakening: A Vampire Huntress Legend"

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CARMIELE Y. WILKERSON. "Review of Love"

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