Reviews

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

Tropic Life

James Davis, Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015); 418 pages; ISBN 978-0231157841 (hardcover)

J. Dillon Brown
February 2016

El Secreto Abierto

Kofi Omoniyi Syvanus Campbell, The Queer Caribbean Speaks: Interviews with Writers, Artists, and Activists (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014); 209 pages; ISBN 978-1137364838 (hardcover)

Rosamond S. King, Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014); 261 pages; ISBN 978-0813049809 (hardcover)

Patricia K. DeRocher
February 2016

Writing as Resistance: The Case of Dominican Women Writers

Sintia Molina, ed., Escritoras dominicanas a la deriva: Marginación, dolor y resistencia / Dominican Women Writers on the Edge: Alienation, Pain, and Resistance (Madrid: Verbum, 2014); 155 pages; ISBN 978-8479629625 (paperback)

Rosa Mirna Sánchez
February 2016