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Rosa Guy, Haiti, and the Hemispheric Woman
To frame the Black feminist intervention of Rosa Guy’s The Sun, the Sea, a Touch of the Wind (1995), I want to discuss a contemporaneous novel that shares with Guy’s the theme of African American female rejuvenation and empowerment through Caribbean romance—Terry McMillan’s bestseller and pop culture phenomenon, How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1996). Because McMillan is one of the most widely known authors who defines Black feminism today,¹ it is worthwhile to consider how her work takes up Carole Boyce Davies’ salient questions: “How do United States Black women/women of color, often the most dispossessed on the
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