Reviews

Kingston Piece by Piece

Colin Channer, ed., Kingston Noir (New York: Akashic, 2012); 285 pages; ISBN: 978-1-61775-074-8 (paperback).

Nadia Ellis
May 2013

The Scent of the Past

Wayne Brown, The Scent of the Past: Stories and Remembrances (Leeds: Peepal Tree, 2011); 381 pages; ISBN: 9781845231538 (paperback).

Edward Baugh
May 2013

Andre, the Obeah Man

Andre Bagoo, Trick Vessels (Bristol, UK: Shearsman, 2012); 80 pages; ISBN 978-1848612037 (paper). 

Vladimir Lucien
August 2012

Reconnecting the Spaces of the African Diaspora

James C. Hall and Heather Hathaway, eds., Conversations with Paule Marshall (Jackson: University of Mississippi, 2010); 240 pages; ISBN 978-1604737431 (hardcover).

Barbara J. Webb
August 2012

Caribbean Writers and the Public Sphere

Raphael Dalleo, Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere: From the Plantation to the Postcolonial (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011); 320 pages; ISBN 978-0813931999 (paper).

Faith Smith
May 2012

Parsing Aftershocks and History

Laurent Dubois, Haiti: The Aftershocks of History (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2012); 448 pages; ISBN 978-0805093353 (hardcover).

Jeremy M. Glick
May 2012

Afro-Latinidades in the United States

Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores, eds., The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010); 566 pages; ISBN-13 978-0-8223-4572-5 (paper).

Yvette Fuentes
May 2012