Reviews

On Puerto Rican Performance’s Queer Femme Horizons

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021); 350 pages; ISBN 978-0472074273 (hardcover)

Joseph Shaikewitz
February 2023

Sounding Caribbean Literary Queerness

Alison Donnell, Creolized Sexualities: Undoing Heteronormativity in the Literary Imagination of the Anglo-Caribbean (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2021); 191 pages; ISBN 978-1978818118 (paperback)

Bastien Bomans
February 2023

Topographies of Desire

Shani Mootoo, Polar Vortex (New York: Akashic, 2020); 336 pages; ISBN 978-1617758621 (paperback)

Courtenay Chan
February 2023

An Imagination of Reassembly

John Robert Lee, Pierrot (Leeds: Peepal Tree, 2020); 72 pages; ISBN: 978-1845234782 (paperback)

Canisia Lubrin
October 2022

a powerful gathering of poems illuminates these pages

Loretta Collins Klobah and Maria Grau Perejoan, eds., The Sea Needs No Ornament / El mar no necesita ornamento: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Caribbean Women Poets, trans. Loretta Collins Klobah and Maria Grau Perejoan (Leeds: Peepal Tree, 2020); 397 pages; ISBN 978-1845234737 (paperback)

Marta Fernández Campa
October 2022

sistahs and solidarity—performing sex and politics

Staceyann Chin, Crossfire: A Litany for Survival (Chicago: Haymarket, 2019); 216 pages; ISBN 978-1642590258 (paperback)

d’bi.young anitafrika, dubbin poetry: the collected poems of d’bi.young anitafrika (Toronto: Spolrusie, 2019); 389 pages; ISBN 978-1999038908 (paperback)

Natalie Wall
October 2022

poetics as sweet as saltfish

David Bradford, Dream of No One but Myself (Kingston: Brick, 2021); 112 pages; ISBN: 978-1771315609 (paperback)

Marvin Thompson, Road Trip (Leeds: Peepal Tree, 2020); 68 pages; ISBN: 978-1845234607 (paperback)

Cornel Bogle
October 2022

Rooted in Time and Place

Hazel D. Campbell, Jamaica on My Mind: New and Collected Stories (Leeds: Peepal Tree, 2019); 346 pages; ISBN 978-1845234409 (paperback)

Suzanne Scafe
June 2022