... century, but this essay argues that Against the Day deals more broadly with the history of emergent media that come to shape reality according to capitalist interests. Merle Rideout, a character linked to camera technologies, and Lew Basnight, who represents print media, remain strangers for the first...

... Allfrey, The Orchid House; Erna Brodber, Myal and Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home; Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street; Merle Collins, Angel; Maryse Condé, Hérémakhonon; Edwidge Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Mem- ory; Beryl Gilroy, Boy-­Sandwich; Merle Hodge, Crick Crack, Monkey; Jamaica Kincaid...