SOURCE: "An Ending of Her Own Choosing," in San Francisco Review of Books, Vol. 18, No. 3, May/June, 1993, p. 19.

In the following review, Pimentel praises I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem, considering Condé an author with "universal vision."

Condé on Négritude:

What should we keep of Négritude? It helped us value our blackness. Formerly, to be black was a curse. After Négritude, our blackness became something we could bear and accept—we could even be proud of it. It helped us confront the world around us by possessing an identity of our own according to the various places in which we were born. Without Négritude, perhaps we would still be ashamed of ourselves. There is, however, no reason to be proud to belong to one race or another. I question the fact that Négritude perpetuates the notion that all blacks are the same. That...