Reviews Mullen's examination (Greenwood Press, 1998, 236p) of Afro-Cuban literature. Notes that this study is "perceptive" and "important" to the field of Afro-Hispanic literary criticism.;
Kuwabong suggests that both Lorna Goodison's and Claire Harris's poetic of matrilineage survives on their positive representation of the mother-daughter relationship, which ideologically borders on the Caribbean concept of a daughter becoming her mother