Liminal Spaces - Contents

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	Dedication	vii
	Notes on the Contributors	ix

Introduction: Liminal Spaces		1
Grace Aneiza Ali		1

Part I: Mothering Lands		21

1.	Surrogate Skin: Portrait of Mother (Land)	25
1.	Keisha Scarville	25

2.	Until I Hear from You	39
2.	Erika DeFreitas	39

3.	Electric Dreams	51
3.	Natalie Hopkinson and Serena Hopkinson	51

Part II: The Ones Who Leave . . . The Ones Who Are Left		65

4.	The Geography of Separation	69
4.	Grace Aneiza Ali	69

5.	Transplantation	83
5.	Dominique Hunter	83

6.	Those Who Remain: Portraits of Amerindian Women	91
6.	Khadija Benn	91

7.	When They Left	109
7.	Ingrid Griffith	109

Part III: Transitions		119

8.	So I Pick Up Me New-World-Self	123
8.	Grace Nichols	123

9.	Revisionist	135
9.	Suchitra Mattai	135

10.	Memories from Yonder	141
10.	Christie Neptune	141

11.	A Trace \| Evidence of Time Past	147
11.	Sandra Brewster	147

Part IV: Returns, Reunions, and Rituals		161

12.	Concrete and Filigree	165
12.	Michelle Joan Wilkinson	165

13.	A Daughter’s Journey from Indenture to Windrush	179
13.	Maria del Pilar Kaladeen	179

14.	Keeping Wake	189
14.	Maya Mackrandilal	189

	Postface: A Brief History of Migration from Guyana	203
	Grace Aneiza Ali	203

	List of Illustrations	205
	Acknowledgements	213