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... © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Sucking Salt: Caribbean Women Writers, Migration, and Survival . By Meredith M. Gadsby. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press. 2006. vii, 225 pp. $39.95. Caribbean Women Writers and Globalization: Fictions of Independence . By Helen C. Scott...

...Sean X. Goudie This essay brings into dialogue discrete conversations in Caribbean studies, international political economy (IPE), and hemispheric American studies. Contextualizing these fields through the trope of hospitality, a figure of particular significance in Caribbean-U.S. relations...

..., and Narrative . By John Muthyala. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press. 2006. xiv, 213 pp. $39.95. What Women Lose: Exile and the Construction of Imaginary Homelands in Novels by Caribbean Writers . By María Cristina Rodríguez. New York: Peter Lang. 2005. xxii, 200 pp. $32.95. Book Reviews Securing...

...Patricia Stuelke This essay reframes the recovery and canonization of Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) in the late 1970s and early 1980s in relation to the US economic restructuring and military invasion of the Caribbean in that same period. Focusing on Paule...

...Vera M. Kutzinski The Purloined Islands: Caribbean-US Crosscurrents in Literature and Culture, 1880-1959 . By Karem Jeff . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2011 . 304 pp. Cloth, $69.50; paper, $35.00 . Asylum Speakers: Caribbean Refugees and Testimonial Discourse...

...Myriam J. A. Chancy © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Race, American Literature, and Transnational Modernisms . By Anita Patterson. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2008. vi, 241 pp. $90.00. Nationalism and the Formation of Caribbean Literature . By Leah Reade...

...James R. Giles By Heather Hathaway. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press. 1999. xi, 200 pp.$29.95. 2000 880 American Literature Caribbean Waves: Relocating Claude McKay and Paule Marshall. By Heather...

... as sites for early black cultural formation, sites that, through the triangle trade, were intimately connected to Africa and the Caribbean. Consequently ‘‘the pre-Emancipation period’’ gave birth to forms of cultural production...

...Anne Gulick Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity: Returning Medusa's Gaze . By Maria Cristina Fumagalli. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2009. x, 198 pp. Cloth, $59.50; paper, $22.50. Legba's Crossing: Narratology in the African Atlantic . By Heather Russell. Athens: Univ...

... books make clear that terrorism, violence, and radical dissent can neither be dismissed as antagonistic to nationalism nor admitted as aberrations that suture it. Monique Allewaert, Duke University 608 American Literature Caribbean Autobiography: Cultural Identity and Self-Representation...

...Crystal Parikh The Fiction of South Asians in North America and the Caribbean: A Critical Study of English-Language Works since 1950. By Mitali P. Wong and Zia Hasan. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2004. ix, 142 pp. Paper, $35.00. The Politics of the Visible in Asian North American...

... . By Lisa Cohen Minnick. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2004. xxi, 194 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $22.50. The Language of Caribbean Poetry: Boundaries of Expression . By Lee M. Jenkins. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2004. x, 232 pp. $59.95. Their Right to Speak: Women's Activism...

...Jenna Grace Sciuto Calypso Magnolia: The Crosscurrents of Caribbean and Southern Literature . By Lowe John Wharton . Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press . 2016 . xvii, 443 pp. Cloth , $95.00 ; paper, $39.95 ; e-book, $29.99 . Finding Purple America: The South...

... is built on amnesia” (1), Dalleo concludes, but so was the anti-imperialist “Caribbean politics and cultural production” that wiped its mind of its crucial shaping by the American invasion of 1915 (2). To transform amnesia into insight, Dalleo proceeds from The Black Jacobins (1938), C. L. R. James’s...

... for Jazz (1961), which renders his dual commitment to a black transnationalist public and an innovative African diaspora jazz poetics. Ask Your Mama features the interaction of African cultures in the Americas and Africa, with its evocation of Afro-Caribbean as well as African American music and its...

... representations of obeah, a creole religion practiced by enslaved persons in the British Caribbean, arguing that such narratives use religious experience to craft an alternative transnationalism. Works such as William Earle’s 1800 novel Obi; or, The History of Three-Fingered Jack and similar chapbooks, penny...

..., and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States (1852) and his serially published novel of circum-Caribbean slave insurrection, Blake (1859, 1861–62). Mattox argues that in an antebellum era marked by struggles over the rights of black Americans and by growing U.S. hemispheric claims, the attention...

...Elizabeth Maddock Dillon; Kate Simpkins Abstract Key aspects of the plantation economy, centered in the early Caribbean, include the theft of Indigenous land, agricultural monocropping, and racial capitalism as well as an epistemological effort to separate out humans, animals, and plants...

... portrays the impossibility of escaping overdevelopment through cyberspace, but it routes this impossibility through the specter of racial contamination by Caribbean hackers and Haitian gods. This racialized frontier imaginary shaped the form of internet technologies throughout the 1990s, influencing...

... allows us to think meaningfully about Gone with the Wind ’s relationship to plantation fiction from Ireland and the Caribbean in order to see it as a production of— rather than a retreat from—transatlantic modernity. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 References Adams Jessica . 2007...