Reviews

Sweeping Guyana into the Global Frame

Oneka LaBennett, Global Guyana: Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond (New York: New York University Press, 2024); 256 pages; ISBN 978-1479827015 (paperback)

Sasha Ann Panaram
February 2025

Intersecting Pan-Caribbean Crossings

Anthea Morrison, New Crossings: Caribbean Migration Narratives (Mona: University of West Indies Press, 2019); 201 pages; ISBN 978-9766407353 (paperback)

Marisel C. Moreno, Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature and Art (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2022); 282 pages; ISBN 978-1477325605 (paperback)

Oriana Mejías Martínez
February 2025

“The Seed of Possible Future(s)” in Our Ongoing Past

Critical Transformations and Transitions in Caribbean Literature

Evelyn O’Callaghan and Tim Watson, eds., Caribbean Literature in Transition: 1800–1920 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2020); 481 pages; ISBN 978-1108475884 (hardcover)

Raphael Dalleo and Curdella Forbes, eds., Caribbean Literature in Transition: 1920–1970 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2020); 420 pages; ISBN 978-1108495523 (hardcover)

Ronald Cummings and Alison Donnell, eds., Caribbean Literature in Transition: 1970–2020 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2020); 468 pages; ISBN 978-1108474009 (hardcover)

Maddi Chan and Linzey Corridon
February 2025

Laird’s Literary Odyssey

Christopher Laird, Equal to Mystery: In Search of Harold Sonny Ladoo (Leeds: Peepal Tree, 2023); 231 pages; ISBN 978-18452325628 (paperback)

Philip Nanton
October 2024

Home and Exile

Lisa Allen-Agostini, Home Home (London: Papillote, 2018); 100 pages; ISBN: 978-1999776831 (paperback)

Viviana Prado-Núñez, The Art of White Roses (London: Papillote, 2018); 192 pages; ISBN: 978-1999776824 (paperback)

Geraldine Elizabeth Skeete
October 2024

The Politics of Queer Belonging in the Caribbean

Nikoli A. Attai, Defiant Bodies: Making Queer Community in the Anglophone Caribbean (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2023); 212 pages; ISBN 978-1978830356 (paperback)

Cornel Grey
October 2024

Estrangement, Alienation, and Vulnerability in New Short Fiction by Jamaican Women Writers

Alexia Arthurs, How to Love a Jamaican: Stories (New York: Ballentine, 2018); 256 pages; ISBN 978-1509883622 (paperback)

Wandeka Gayle, Motherland, and Other Stories (Leeds: Peepal Tree, 2020); 182 pages; ISBN 978-1845234799 (paperback)

Zalika Reid-Benta, Frying Plantain (Toronto: House of Anansi, 2019); 272 pages; ISBN 978-1487005344 (paperback)

Laurie R. Lambert
June 2024