LATIN AMU -LECTION
 UNMVE-B. V FLORiDA








 Table Contents


Introduction .......... .......... .. .... ................... vii
Poetry
Lynette Cintr6n
 The First Tim e She Saw Snow ..................................... ................. 1
From the Bedroom to the Roof, Going Up the Spiral Stair Case,
 Two Lovers, Abolition Day 2002 .................... ... .................... 5

ESSAYS
Elizabeth Edla Davis
 "and you can drink the water": Caribbean Landscape
 in Cliff and Marshall, Fodor's and Frommer's .............................. 7
Kim Dismont Robinson
 Taming the Tempest: Locating Bermuda on the Literary Map..... 21
Aaron Eastley
 Shaping a Symbol: Schwarz-Bart's Visions and Revisions
 of His Guadeloupian Heroine in La Mulatresse Solitude ............. 31
Joseph T. Farquharson
 Literary Revolution and Decolonisation in
 Louise Bennett's Poetry .......................................... ..................... 45
Richard J. File-Muriel
 Defining the Target Language in Language Genesis ..................... 57
Hugh Hodges
 Speak of the Advent of New Light: Jamaican
 Proverbs and Anancy Stories .................................. .................... 75