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This book examines the concept of queer theory and combines it with the field of diaspora studies. By looking at the queer diasporic narratives in and from the Caribbean, it conducts an inquiry into the workings and underpinnings of both fields.

Migrants' social mobility in migration destinations is often measured in terms of \"objective\" socio-economic indicators. These, however, generally say little about migrants' own hopes and aspirations. This analysis of Caribbean migrants' life stories argues that \"improvement\" offers a flexible notion of achievement that, as construed by migrants, may be understood according to a range of cultural rationales, thus enabling them to see themselves as worthy social actors. An ethnographic analysis of migrants' social construction of improvement therefore opens up a framework of analysis focusing on individuals' understanding of migration as a means of societal mobility and social recognition. On mesure souvent la mobilité sociale des emigrants au sein de la destination de leur migration en termes d'indicateurs socio-économiques « objectifs ». Ces indicateurs toutefois, nous disent peu de choses sur les propres espoirs et aspirations des migrants. Dans cette analyse d'histoires de vie de migrants antillais, on défend l'argument que des « améliorations » constituent une notion flexible de réussite qui, telle qu'interprétée par les migrants, peut être comprise selon divers raisonnements culturels, ce qui leur permet de se percevoir comme des acteurs sociaux respectables. Une analyse ethnographique de la construction sociale de « l'amélioration » chez les migrants ouvre alors un cadre d'analyse s'intéressant particulièrement à la compréhension individuelle de la migration en tant que moyen de mobilité sociétale et de reconnaissance sociale.

Mis vecinos de barandal afirmaron que la tardanza en zarpar obedecía a una estrategia para que la fiesta que implica todo viaje por mar (sólo comparado a uno por tren) se desatara en el casino, la pista de baile, el restaurante, los dos o tres bares y las abundantes tiendas diuti fri. En Santo Domingo conocí otros datos interesantes: que los mexicanos nos sentimos superiores al resto de los latinoamericanos (algo asi como los argentines de América Central), que en Monterrey hace mucho frío en el invierno y mucho calor en el verano y que en México los indios valen menos que nada. Por lo general los monumentos lloran o conmemoran o enfatizan el sacrificio de algún prócer; pero esta construcción de lápidas superpuestas, coloreada con negros funerarios y dorados epifánicos de espaldas a un mar tan portentoso como impasible (adjetivo que plagio del \"Mamá, soy paquito\" diazmironiano), celebra, aunque merecidísimo, un asesinato. Luis Arturo Ramos University of Texas, El Paso Luis Arturo Ramos (Veracruz, México, 1947) ha publicado las novela Violeta-Peru (Premio Nacional de Narrativo para obra publicada, Institute Nacional de Bellas Artes-Colima), Intramuros (traducida al inglés bajo el título de Within these Walls), Este era un goto (Premio Latinoamericano de Narrativa para obra publicada Inba-Colima), La casa del ahorcado (Finalista del Premio Mortiz-Planeta, 1992) y La mujer que quiso ser Dios.

Lucy Evans Communities in Contemporary Anglophone Caribbean Short Stories. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2014. x + 230 pp. (Cloth us$ 110.00)

[...]there are always a few people who agree to write a review and then, despite multiple reminders, cannot seem to get the job done. [...]it is once again our solemn duty to induct this select group of scholars into the Caribbeanist Hall of Shame. [...]Peepal Tree Press (Leeds, U.K.) has started publishing an outstanding series called Caribbean Modern Classics - fiction from the 1950s and 1960s. [...]an excellent introduction to Caribbean art by two veteran participants in the region's cultural life. (If there are interested reviewers out there for any of these titles, please do not hesitate to email us!) This year's list includes (alphabetized by author): Sugar: A Bittersweet History, by Elizabeth Abbot (New York: Overlook Press, 2010, cloth US$ 29.95); Island Enclaves: Offshoring Strategies, Creative Governance, and Subnational Island Jurisdictions, by Godfrey Baldacchino (Montreal, Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010, paper US$ 32.95); Christian Ritual and the Creation of British Slave Societies, 1650- 1780, by Nicholas Beasley (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009, cloth US$ 44.95); Policing the Caribbean: Transnational Security Cooperation in Practice, by Ben Bowling (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2010, cloth US$ 120.00); Matanzas: The Cuba Nobody Knows, by Miguel A. Bretos (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010, cloth US$ 27.50); The Cuba Wars: Fidel Castro, The United States, and The Next Revolution, by Daniel P. Erikson (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2009, paper US$ 18.00); In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration, by Nancy Foner (New York: New York University Press, 2008, paper US $ 22.00); Sugar and Power in the Caribbean: The South Porto Rico Sugar Company in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic 1900-1921, by Umberto García Muñiz (San Juan: La Editorial, Universidad de Puerto Rico and Kingston: Ian Randle, 2010, paper n.p.); Afro-Caribbean Music, by Katherine J. Hagedorn (London: Routledge, 2010, paper US$ 44.95); Health, Politics, and Revolution in Cuba since 1898, by Katherine Hirchfeld (New Brunswick NJ:

According to Tinsley, both works reconfigure the official narratives of border, gender, and race as the authors envisage the Caribbean as a place that granted northerners and European migrants the freedom to \"live out riotous, complex genders and sexualities suppressed in their homeland, \" while the Global North became the place to flee from. In the final chapter, \"The Dominican Diaspora Strikes Back: Cultural Archive and Race in Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,\" Juanita Heredia underlines the pivotal role of Pulitzer Prize-winner Díaz in dismantling predominant narratives of race and gender in the United States and the Dominican Republic.