"Hot Beds: Black-White Love and its Representations in Selected Contemporary Novels from the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean"

This dissertation is a comparative study of the representations of Black-white heterosexual love in novels, published since the 1940s, by Black, white, male and female authors from the United States of America, Africa, and the Caribbean. It uses African-American feminist theories by bell hooks and the postcolonial theories by Ngugi wa Thiong'o to analyze the images the characters hold of each other and the lacking, ongoing or accomplished process of decolonizing the mind, as defined by Ngugi and hooks.