Gina has worked in educational development for over 25 years, and in 2005 was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship for her work in teaching and learning. She is the author of The Undergraduate Research Handbook, The Postgraduate Research Handbook and The Good Supervisor.

• Preface - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction: Black and White: Voices, Writers and Readers; G.Wisker - 'Writing the Body': Reading Joan Riley's The Unbelonging, Grace Nichols' I Is a Long Memoried Woman and Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf; G.Griffin - Black Women Writing and Reading; J.Roy - 'Long Memoried Women': Caribbean Women Poets; B.Woodcock - Disremembered and Unaccounted For: Reading Toni Morrison's Beloved and Alice Walker's The Temple of My Familiar; G.Wisker - Art, Action and the Ancestors: Alice Walker's Meridian in its Context; C.Hall - 'Not My People': Toni Morrison and Identity; E.Jordan - Autobiography: The Art of Self-Definition; E.L.Birch - Reading From a Distance: Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy; S.Chetin - Reconstructing the Past, Shaping the Future: Bessie Head and the Question of Feminism in a New South Africa; D.Driver - Index