Championing Feminism: The Role of Interracial Sexual Relationships in
             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 of the this aforementioned stereotype. Both Butler and Conde deftly illustrate interracial sexual relationships that involve woman protagonists dealing with a myriad of trials and tribulations stemming directly or indirectly from such unconventional associations. Upon stringently critiquing the precise usage of these relationships each female protagonist finds herself encumbered within, it becomes evident that there lies a plethora of stark differences concerning the motives, intentions, and means in which the given authors ultimately strive to portray through these interracial sexual relationships. Hence, the representations of interracial sexual relationships within these novels are introduced for indubitably distinct purposes and thus the concluding results of each differ quite clearly, though they ultimately unite in principle since they both ultimately break the barriers of these relationships in Caribbean literature.
             Rather than introduce an interracial sexual relationship to the black female protagonist, Butler instead establishes the marriage between Edana and Kevin Franklin as a given variable within Kindred. From the commencement of the novel, it is evident that the affection between Dana and Kevin transcends all racial boundaries, which indeed consternates many readers who assume from the inception that Kevin is also black. Butler instills this surprise on purpose, not only to raise general alert to the reader; but also warn them that nothing in the novel is as it...