Kathleen Gyssels is member of the Postcolonial Research Group at the University of Antwerp. Her research focuses on Caribbean literature from a comparative, interdisciplinary perspective, with emphasis on female writing and the dialogue between la Francophonie and postcolonial theory. Her works include Filles de solitude: Essai sur l'identité antillaise dans les [auto-]biographies fictives de Simone et André Schwarz-Bart (Paris: L'Harmattan, 1996) and Le Folklore et la littérature créole dans l'oeuvre de Simone Schwarz-Bart (Guadeloupe) (Brussels: Académie des Sciences d'Outre-mer, 1997). She is the co-editor with Paul Pelckmans of Het labyrint van de bevrijding: Portretten van tien postkoloniale auteurs (Kapellen: Acco/Ned. Boekhandel, 1999), and her most recent publication is Sages sorcières? Révision de la mauvaise mère dans Beloved (Toni Morrison), Praisesong for the Widow (Paule Marshall), et Moi, Tituba, sorcière noire de Salem (Maryse Condé) (New York, Lanham: America University Press, 2001). More information on her publications can be found on the Postcolonial Literatures page of the University of Antwerp: http://www.ufsia.ac.be/postcolonial/
