National liberation and the novel, two Caribbean cases: Otero & Abrahams / J.R. Pereira -- The treatment of power in two Caribbean novels: García Márquez, El otoño del patriarca and Vidia Naipaul, The mimic men / E.V. Thomas -- Fernando Alegria's The Chilean spring and Luis Rafael Sánchez' Macho Camacho's beat / D.K. Gordon -- Trinidad and the Trinidadian immigrant in the novels of Ramón Díaz Sánchez and Romulo Gallegos / Jesse Noel -- Carnival masquerade in Earl Lovelace's The dragon can't dance and Sergio Galindo's La comparsa / Sheila Carter -- Religion and religiosity: a comparative study in the works of Gabriel García Márquez and Earl Lovelace / T. Avril Bryan -- Contemporary female writing in the Caribbean / Annette Insanally.