Reviews

A Love that Knows No Drowning (for Alexis)

Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Chico: AK Press, 2020); 174 pages; ISBN 978-1849353977 (paperback)

Ada M. Patterson
February 2023

Hold Your Breath

Sandra Ruiz, Ricanness: Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance (New York: New York University Press, 2019); 229 pages; ISBN 978-1479825684 (paperback)

Angela H. Brown
February 2023

Disaster Capitalism in Post-María Puerto Rico

Yarimar Bonilla and Marisol LeBrón, eds., Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm (Chicago: Haymarket, 2019); 384 pages; ISBN 978-1642590302 (paperback)

Alejandro Escalante
February 2023

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