Opal Palmer Adisa

"Opal Palmer Adisa employs autobiographical prose, dramatic monologue, lyric poem, praise song, blues and prophetic rant to enact the construction of an identity. At its centre is a Rastafarian sense of 'i-ness', but its outer dimensions fully encompass an African Jamaican/American woman's radical consciousness of gender, race, geography, the spiritual and the sensual, the social, political and the historical as the co-ordinates of a dynamic space for dialogue and connection." "Above all, I Name Me Name shares with us the making of a writing persona, the interface between personal and social space, the imagination, and the characters who come unbidden to demand that their stories be told."--book jacket.

From all over the world, this is a collection of works from two hundred women writers of African descent, including: Toni Cade Bambara, Gwendolyn Brooks, Alice Childress, Maryse Conde, Aldo do Espirito Santo, Marita Golden, Pilar Lopez Gonzales, June Jordan, Terry McMillan, Queen of Sheba, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Phillis Weatley, and many, many others.

When Crystal and Donald meet they are two modern, urban professionals, caught in the currents of life and fundamentally unsuited to one another, but bound by the one thing they have in common - powerful sexual desires. Marriage and four children later, Crystal and Donald are at a crossroads.

"When the seductive Monica returns to her village, she wants to make a new start. But Kristoff village, set in the heart of rural Jamaica, is about to become a whirlpool of emotion. Every encounter with Monica stirs up women's dissatisfactions and men's desires. When those emotions develop into hatred and jealousy, Monica is made to pay for what she has done." "In this novel Opal Palmer Adisa brings to life a whole community and writes with understanding and compassion about the frailties of its inhabitants. Drawing on Jamaican folklore, she shows what is at the heart of village life, and how that life can be sustained."--Jacket.