Note: sx salon will not be accepting unsolicited book reviews until October 2015. We continue to offer the following partial list, however, in order to highlight newly published books in Caribbean Literature and Caribbean Studies. If you have any questions about sx salon book reviews, please contact our book review editor Vanessa K. Valdés (vkv@smallaxe.net).
Featured book:
Haiti Glass, by Lenelle Moïse (2014)
Fiction
The Lost Child, by Caryl Phillips (2015)
God Loves Haiti, by Dimitry Elias Léger (2015)
Red Jacket, by Pamela Mordecai (2015)
Leaving by Plane Swimming back Underwater, by Lawrence Scott (2015)
Uncle Brother, by Barbara Lalla (2014)
Ready to Burst, by Frankétienne, trans. Kaiama Glover (2014)
House of Ashes, by Monique Roffey (2014)
Stella, by Emeric Bergeaud, trans. Adriana Umaña Hossman (1859/2014)
Land of Love and Drowning, by Tiphanie Yanique (2014)
Drifting, by Katia D. Ulysse (2014)
Six Stories and an Essay, by Andrea Levy (2014)
Inner Yardie, by Patricia Cumper (2014)
Mrs. B, by Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw (2014)
Island Voices, by Philip Nanton (2014)
Puerto Rican Folktales/Cuentos Folclóricos Puertorriqueños, (2014) by Lisa Sánchez González
Poetry
BURN, by Andre Bagoo (2015)
The Merchant of Feathers, by Tanya Shirley (2014)
God’s Spider, by Cyril Dabydeen (2014)
Bendición: The Complete Poetry of Tato Laviera by Tato Laviera (2014)
Another Crossing, by Khadijah Ibrahim (2014)
The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013, by Derek Walcott and Glyn Maxwell (2014)
Night Vision, by Kendal Hippolyte (2014)
Boricua Passport, by J.L. Torres (2014)
Drama
Two Plays: Couvade & A Pleasant Career, by Michael Gilkes (2014)
Memoir
The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood, by Richard Blanco (2014)
Non-Fiction
Why Haiti Needs New Narratives: A Post-Quake Chronicle, by Gina Athena Ulysse (2015)
Market Aesthetics: The Purchase of the Past in Caribbean Diasporic Fiction, by Elena Machado Sáez (2015)
Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean, by James Davis (2015)
The Things That Fly in the Night: Female Vampires in Literature of the Circum-Caribbean and African Diaspora, by Giselle Liza Anatol (2015)
A Poetics of Performance: The Oral-Scribal Aesthetic in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction, by Carol Bailey (2014)
Citizenship under Pressure: The 1970s in Jamaican Literature and Culture, by Rachel L. Mordecai (2014)
The Haitian Revolution in the Literary Imagination: Radical Horizons, Conservative Constraints, by Philip Kaisary (2014)
The People's Poet: Life and Myth of Ismael Rivera, an Afro-Caribbean Icon, by Rosa Elena Carrasquillo (2014)
The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present, by Shalini Puri (2014)
Imaging the Great Puerto Rican Family: Framing Nation, Race and Gender during the American Century, by Hilda Lloréns (2014)
The Colonial Art of Demonizing Others, by Esther Lezra (2014)
Telling West Indian Lives: Life Narrative and the Reform of Plantation Slavery Cultures, Sue Thomas (2014)
Coloniality of Diasporas: Rethinking Intra-colonial Migrations in a Pan-Caribbean Context, Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel (2014)
Caribbean Literary Discourse: Voice and Cultural Identity in the Anglophone Caribbean, by Barbara Lalla, Jean D'Costa, Velma Pollard (2014)
Dream Nation: Puerto Rican Culture and the Fictions of Independence, by María Acosta Cruz (2014)
Our Nuyorican Thing, The Birth of a Self-Made Identity, by Samuel Diaz Carrion (2014)
Creole Renegades: Rhetoric of Betrayal and Guilt in the Caribbean Diaspora, by Bénédicte Boisseron (2014)
Amistad A Hidden Network of Slavers and Merchants, by Michael Zeuske (2014)