Christian G. Wilson ENG261-H 16 February 2002 Championing Feminism: The Role of Interracial Sexual Relationships in Caribbean Literature When one attempts to visualize the consuetudinary usage of interracial sexual relationships in Caribbean literature, it is quite commonplace to envisage Atlantean male slaves succumbing to the every whimsical desire of their female masters. What becomes clearly evident in both Octavia Butler’s Kindred and Maryse Conde’s I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem is the complete reversal …showed first 75 words of 1486 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1486 total…while simultaneously encountering a soul in which she could relate her races tainted past with. As aforementioned, this inclusion of female interracial relationships is indeed rare in Caribbean literature. “Sexuality is another taboo in West Indian literature, and when reference is made to sexuality, it is to male sexuality.” (Order, 133.) Both Butler and Conde’s novels serve to demolish this stereotype of Caribbean literature, and construct such interracial relationships to serve their own distinct motives.