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Charlotte Ward
 Wallace Stevens' Caribbean Dream ........................................... 121

Micheline Adams
 The Aboriginal Encounters the Conquistador:
 Jamaica Kincaid's "Ovando" ...................................................... 141

Kim Robinson Walcott
 Taking, or Spurning, the Imperial Road:
 White West Indian Writers and their Black Protagonists........ 149

SPECIAL SECTION: A Tribute to Antonio Benitez Rojo
 Introduction: Antonio Benitez Rojo: An Indispensable Friend
 by Maria Cristina Rodriguez ....................................................... 161

Remembrances by:
 Arcadio Diaz Quifiones ................................................................ 163
 Beatriz M orales ............................................................................ 163
 Diane Accaria and Rodolfo Popelnik ......................................... 164
 Joan M cM urray ............................................................................. 164
 Joan Fayer ..................................................................................... 165
 Jo A nne H arris .............................................................................. 165
 M aritza Stanchich ........................................................................ 165
 Ian Anthony Bethell ..................................................................... 166
 Low ell Fiet ..................................................................................... 166
 Rita M olinero ................................................................................ 168

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS................................................................. 169