The volume will in my view be recognized as a seminal text of Caribbean intellectual production, one that gathers the sustained meditation of a foremost scholar and thinker over three and a half decades.–Silvio A. Torres-Saillant, author of
An Intellectual History of the Caribbean This engaging study provides readers with a fresh look at Caribbean literary history. . . . The study includes meticulous treatments of prominent figures, including José Martk, Nicolis Guillén, and John Hearne. In sum, a valuable contribution to the field of Caribbean studies. . . . Recommended.–
Choice Professor Marquez's collection of essays about the culture of the New World Islands is perhaps the most elegantly written anthology of its kind. . . . The collection succeeds exactly how he describes the success of Nicolas Guillen's best poems: as a 'canny juxtaposition of the most heterogeneous texts.'–
Latino(a) Research Review Seeing the book whole, the essays are united by Marquez's formidably archipelagic knowledge of the region and by his elegantly sumptuous prose, whose long sentences break onto the reader's inner ear with the rhythm of waves meeting the beach in the Bahia de Rincon. . . . He has no superior when it comes to close literary analysis.–
New West Indian Guide