Reviews

A Master of the Craft

Caryl Phillips, The Lost Child (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2015); 260 pages; ISBN 978-0374191375 (hardcover)

Elaine Savory
October 2016

Haiti on Its Own Terms

Julia Gaffield, ed., The Haitian Declaration of Independence: Creation, Context, and Legacy (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016); 296 pages; ISBN 978-081393787 (paperback)

Mary Grace Albanese
October 2016

Afro-Latinxs on the New York Scene

Daniel José Older, Shadowshaper (New York: Arthur A. Levine, 2015); 304 pages; ISBN 978-0545591614 (paperback)

Sofia Quintero, Show and Prove (New York: Knopf, 2015); 352 pages; ISBN 978-0375847073 (hardcover)

Yomaira C. Figueroa
October 2016

Forging Port of Spain

Andre Bagoo, Burn (Bristol, UK: Shearsman Books, 2015); 70 pages; ISBN 978-1858614154 (paperback)

Brandon Mc Ivor
June 2016

Drenched in Light

Krista Thompson, Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015); 349 pages; ISBN 978-0822358077 (softcover)

Autumn Marie Womack
June 2016

Patterns of Loving

Erna Brodber, Nothing’s Mat (Kingston: University of West Indies Press, 2014); 128 pages; ISBN 978-9766404949 (paperback)

Rebecca Romdhani
February 2016