Abstract
When I returned to Jamaica in July 1982, I took as gifts for friends some recent novels by black American writers, including Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters. Upon my arrival, Erna Brodber gave me a copy of her new book, Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home. As I read it, I was struck by another instance of how similar experiences (in this case, being black and female in the Americas of the civil rights, black awareness, Rastafarian, and feminist movements) had inspired such strikingly similar expressions in books published the same year (1980) by an American and a Jamaican born one year apart, who knew nothing of each other.
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1990
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Copyright © 1990 Calaloux Publications. This chapter first appeared in Caribbean Women Writers: Essays from the First International Conference.
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Recommended Citation
Dance, Daryl Cumber. "Go Eena Kumbla: A Comparison of Erna Brodber's Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home and Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters." In Caribbean Women Writers: Essays from the First International Conference, edited by Selwyn R. Cudjoe, 169-84. Wellesley: Calaloux Publications, 1990.
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