Reviews

Portrait of the Calypsonian as a Young Man

Anthony Joseph, Kitch: A Fictional Biography of a Calypso Icon (Leeds: Peepal Tree, 2018); 266 pages; ISBN 978-1845234195 (paperback)

​​​​​​​Njelle W. Hamilton
June 2019

Re/Cycling the Craze

Shane Vogel, Stolen Time: Black Fad Performance and the Calypso Craze (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018); 272 pages; ISBN 978-0226568447 (paperback)

​​​​​​​Treviene A. Harris
June 2019

The Politics of Sound

Alejandra Bronfman, Isles of Noise: Sonic Media in the Caribbean (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016); 223 pages; ISBN 978-1469628691 (paperback)

Sonya Donaldson
February 2019

The Lives and Afterlives of The Black Jacobins

Charles Forsdick and Christian Høgsbjerg, eds., The Black Jacobins Reader (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017); 464 pages; ISBN 978-0822362012 (paperback)

Justin Rogers-Cooper
February 2019

Sovereignty and Stagecraft in Panama and the Canal Zone

Katherine A. Zien, Sovereign Acts: Performing Race, Space, and Belonging in Panama and the Canal Zone (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2017); 265 pages; ISBN 978-0813584102 (paperback)

Jennifer Brittan
October 2018

(Re)Claiming, Re(photographing) the Caribbean Figure

Roshini Kempadoo, Creole in the Archive: Imagery, Presence, and the Location of the Caribbean Figure (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2016); 270 pages; ISBN 978-1783482207 (hardcover)

Sebastian Charles Galbo
October 2018

Illuminating Narratives of and by the Undocumented

Marta Caminero-Santangelo, Documenting the Undocumented: Latina/o Narratives and Social Justice in the Era of Operation Gatekeeper (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2016); 296 pages; ISBN 978-0813062594 (hardcover)

Francisco E. Robles
October 2018

The Power of the People

Scott Henkel, Direct Democracy: Collective Power, the Swarm, and the Literatures of the Americas (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2017); 209 pages; ISBN 978-146812254 (hardcover)

Matthew Scully
October 2018