Chocolate Surrealism
Music, Movement, Memory, and History in the Circum-Caribbean
A vibrant take on the global connections empowering Caribbean music and its global transferences
Island at War
Puerto Rico in the Crucible of the Second World War
An illuminating study of the Caribbean island’s contributions to the American war effort
Musical Life in Guyana
History and Politics of Controlling Creativity
A study of how Caribbean music and identity evolve when the government controls all media
The Black Carib Wars
Freedom, Survival, and the Making of the Garifuna
The most detailed history of the Black Caribs of St Vincent
The Grenada Revolution
Reflections and Lessons
A detailed examination of the broad implications of Marxist revolution, politics, and the eventual invasion of the island nation
The Legacy of Eric Williams
Into the Postcolonial Moment
A study of the contributions of a public intellectual and a former prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago
Wolf Tracks
Popular Art and Re-Africanization in Twentieth-Century Panama
How red devil buses and self-taught artists have enlivened one Latin American nation
The Artistry of Afro-Cuban Batá Drumming
Aesthetics, Transmission, Bonding, and Creativity
An investigation of one of the most sophisticated, intriguing, and elusive of the world’s drumming traditions
The Caribbean Novel since 1945
Cultural Practice, Form, and the Nation-State
How fiction, its forms, and its evolution reflect countries in the midst of postcolonial change
Patrick Chamoiseau
A Critical Introduction
An opening into the life, novels, fictions, and manifestos of a noted Caribbean author