Here are some titles:
_I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem_ by Guadeloupe-born Maryse Conde'
_The Palm Wine Drinkard_ by African Amos Tutuola
_Feather Woman of the Jungle_, ditto
_Fire in the Canes_ by Barbadian Glenville Lovell
_Divina Trace_ by Trinidadian Robert Antoni
_The Black Insider_ by Dambudzo Marechera (Africa/England)
Closer to this part of the world, these American authors:
_Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie Laveau_ by Jewell Parker Rhodes
_Mumbo Jumbo_ and _Freelance Pallbearers_ by Ishmael Reed
_An Open Weave_ by devorah major
_Middle Passage_ by Charles Johnson
_The Gilda Stories_ by Jewelle Gomez
_The Between_ by Tananarive Due
_When Fox is a Thousand_ by Larissa Lai (Canada)
I'm also currently getting a serious buzz off Shani Mootoo's novel
_Cereus Blooms at Night (Caribbean/Canada). Not easily definable as
fantasy or magic realism, though it seems to kind of flirt with the latter.
-nalo
"While you're imitating Al Capone,
I'll be Nina Simone,
And be defecatin' on your microphone."
-Lauryn, The Fugees
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