Reviews

Mapping Afro-Cuban America

Antonio López, Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America (New York: New York University Press, 2012); 271 pages; ISBN: 978-0814765470 (paperback).

Daniel Arbino 
February 2015

Intersections of Privilege

Bernardine Evaristo, Mr. Loverman (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2013); 307 pages; ISBN 978-0241145784 (paperback).

Kela Nnarka Francis
February 2015

Ethnography, Genealogy, and Relation

Christina Kullberg, The Poetics of Ethnography in Martinican Narratives: Exploring the Self and the Environment (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013); 217 pages; ISBN: 978-0813935133 (paperback).

Rachel L. Mordecai
February 2015

An Unknown History

Kal Wagenheim and Olga Jiménez de Wagenheim, eds., The Puerto Ricans: A Documentary History, 5th ed. (Princeton, NJ: Markus Weiner, 2013); 423 pages; ISBN: 9781558765641 (paperback).

Vanessa K. Valdés
October 2014

Conjugating Lines of Beauty

David Dabydeen, Johnson’s Dictionary (Leeds, UK: Peepal Tree, 2013); 221 pages; ISBN: 9781845232184 (paperback).

Kristina Huang 
October 2014

From Paradise to Hell

Amanda Smyth, A Kind of Eden (London: Serpent’s Tail, 2013); 288 pages; ISBN: 9781846688133 (paperback).

Sophie Harris
October 2014

Petals of Kouraj

Edwidge Danticat, Claire of the Sea Light (New York: Knopf, 2013); 238 pages; ISBN: 9780307271792 (hardcover).

Natasha Gordon-Chipembere
October 2014

“Sexually Undone”

Faith Smith, ed., Sex and the Citizen: Interrogating the Caribbean (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011); 304 pages; ISBN: 9780813931135 (paperback)

Charmaine Crawford
July 2014

Of Filiation and Freedom

John Patrick Walsh, Free and French in the Caribbean: Toussaint Louverture, Aimé Césaire, and Narratives of Loyal Opposition (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013); 193 pages; ISBN: 9780253006271 (paperback).

Andrew M. Daily
July 2014

Recently Cited: Eric Walrond’s Delayed Arrival

Louis J. Parascandola and Carl A. Wade, eds., Eric Walrond: The Critical Heritage (Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2012); 232 pages; ISBN: 9789766402747 (paperback).

Jennifer Brittan
July 2014