Reviews

Mobilizing a Mathematics of Disturbance

Matthew Chin, Fractal Repair: Queer Histories of Modern Jamaica (Duke University Press, 2024); 227 pages; ISBN 978-1478030225 (paperback)

Warren Harding
February 2026

Spirals in the Caribbean

Sophie Maríñez, Spirals in the Caribbean: Representing Violence and Connection in Haiti and the Dominican Republic (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024); 320 pages; ISBN 978-1512826401 (hardcover)

Maja Horn
February 2026

Reckoning with “Home”

Yashika Graham, Some of Us Can Go Back Home (Kingston: Blue Banyan Books, 2024); 59 pages; ISBN 978-9768267405 (paperback)

Shannon Chen See
June 2025

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