Sargasso 2002, II
New Century/New Horizons:
Emerging Scholars of Caribbean Literatures, Languages, and Cultures

Sargasso, a journal of Caribbean literature, language, and culture edited at the
University of Puerto Rico, publishes critical essays, interviews, book reviews,
and some poems and short stories. Sargasso particularly welcomes material
written by and/or about the people of the Caribbean region and its diaspora.
Essays and critical studies should conform to the style of the MLA Handbook.
Short stories should be no more than 2,500 words in length, and poems should
be kept to no more than twenty to thirty lines. All correspondence must include
S.A.S.E. For electronic submission, write to: lofiet@isla.net

Mailing Address: Sargasso
 P.O. Box 22831, UPR Station
 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00931-2831

The Ph.D. Program in Caribbean Literature and Linguistics, Department of
English, College of Humanities, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Puerto
Rico publishes Sargasso. It also hosts the annual Caribbean Doctoral Studies
Symposium, an extension of the Rockefeller Foundation-funded Caribbean 2000
Project, 1994-1999, and frequently publishes papers presented as part of the
Symposium.

Lowell Fiet, Editor-in-Chief

This issue edited by:
Elsa Luciano Feal and Sally Everson, Editors
Don E. Walicek, David Lizardi, and Raphael Dalleo, Co-Editors


Antonio Garcia Padilla, President of the University of Puerto Rico

Gladys Escalona de Motta, Chancellor, Rio Piedras Campus

Jos6 Luis Vega, Dean of Humanities

Cover: "Saqra", Paucartambo, Cusco, Per(i. Photo by Lowell Fiet.
Layout: Marcos Pastrana



Opinions and views expressed in Sargasso are those of the individual authors and are
not necessarily shared by Sargasso's Editorial Committee. All rights return to the
authors. Copies of Sargasso 2002, II, as well as previous issues, are on deposit in the
Library of Congress. Filed May 2003.