Reviews

Notes on Archipelago: A Novel

Monique Roffey, Archipelago: A Novel (New York: Penguin, 2012); 360 pages; ISBN: 9780143122562 (paperback).

Michael Sawyer
February 2014

Postcolonial Odysseys

Maeve Tynan, Postcolonial Odysseys: Derek Walcott’s Voyages of Homecoming (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2011); 179 pages; ISBN: 9781443828420 (hardcover).

Gyasi Byng
February 2014

Winkler Takes Us to School

Anthony Winkler, God Carlos (New York: Akashic Books, 2012); 215 pages; ISBN: 9781617751394 (paperback)

Anthony Winkler, The Family Mansion (New York: Akashic Books, 2013); 256 pages; ISBN: 9781617751660 (paperback)

Garfield Ellis
November 2013

Be Rootful and Fly

Elsie Augustave, The Roving Tree (New York: Akashic Books/Open Lens, 2013); 224 pages; ISBN 9781617751653 (paperback).

Sandy Alexandre
November 2013

Reparation and the Religio-Legal Injustices of Empire

Hilary McD. Beckles, Britain’s Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide (Mona: University of the West Indies Press, 2013); 292 pages; ISBN: 9789766402686 (paperback).

Taurean J. Webb
November 2013

Fleshing the Bones of Caribbean Slavery

Andrea Stuart, Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire (New York: Knopf, 2013); 384 pages; ISBN: 9780307272836 (hardcover).

Dave St. Aubyn Gosse, Abolition and Plantation Management in Jamaica, 1807–1838 (Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2012); 248 pages; ISBN: 9789766402693 (paperback).

Suzanne Uzzilia
November 2013

Writing Against Black Brutality

Deborah A. Thomas, Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011); 320 pages; ISBN: 9780822350866 (paperback).

Tami Navarro
August 2013