The most recent issue of the journal American Studies features a review of new work in Caribbean studies that examines Raphael Dalleo’s 2011 book Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere alongside Vanessa Valdes’s Oshun’s Daughters.
The review concludes that “Caribbean Literature in The Public Sphere represents a major contribution to pan-Caribbean literary history exploring the plantation era, the emergence of the anticolonial intellectual, and the late-twentieth-century emphasis on testimonial literature and popular culture,” while offering Valdes’s work as suggesting the ways that the approach in Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere can be supplemented by “a much-needed reassessment of the epistemological and ethical contributions of African-diasporic religion.”
More reviews of Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere can be found here.