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The Guise of Exceptionalism
The Guise of Exceptionalism compares the historical origins of Haitian and American exceptionalisms. It also traces how exceptionalism as a narrative of uniqueness has shaped …
Beyond Representation in Contemporary Caribbean Art
The Caribbean has been traditionally associated with externally devised mappings and categories, thus appearing as a passive entity to be consumed and categorized. Challenging …
A Contested Caribbean Indigeneity
A Contested Caribbean Indigeneity is an in-depth analysis of the debates surrounding Taíno/Boricua activism in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean diaspora in New York City. Drawing on …
Contradictory Indianness
As Contradictory Indianness shows, a postcolonial Caribbean aesthetics that has from its inception privileged inclusivity, interraciality, and resistance against Old World colonial …
Defiant Bodies
In the Anglophone Caribbean, international queer human rights activists strategically located within and outside of the region have dominated interventions seeking to address …
Becoming Creole
Becoming Creole explores how people become who they are through their relationships with the natural world, and it shows how those relationships are also always embedded in …
Streetwalking
Honorable Mention, Isis Duarte Book Prize (Latin American Studies Association?)Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic is an exploration of the ways that …
Folk Stories from the Hills of Puerto Rico / Cuentos folklóricos de las montañas de Puerto Rico
This exciting new anthology gathers together Puerto Rican folktales that were passed down orally for generations before finally being transcribed beginning in 1914 by the team of …
Erotic Cartographies
Erotic Cartographies uses subjective mapping, a participatory data collection technique, to demonstrate how Trinidadian same-sex-loving women use their gender performance, erotic …
Haiti Fights Back
Winner of the 2021 Haitian Studies Association Book Prize?Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte is the first US scholarly examination of the politician and …
The Struggle of Non-Sovereign Caribbean Territories
The Struggle of Non-Sovereign Caribbean Territories is an essay collection made up of two sections; in the first, a group of anglophone and francophone scholars examines the roots, …
The Things That Fly in the Night
The Things That Fly in the Night explores images of vampirism in Caribbean and African diasporic folk traditions and in contemporary fiction. Giselle Liza Anatol focuses on the …