With a twin dedication to conceptual abstraction and to aesthetic creativity, Lorna Burns has produced a sustained, post-continental philosophical account of post-colonial literature, by authors such as Aimé Césaire, René Ménil, Édouard Glissant, Wilson Harris, Derek Walcott, Pauline Melville, Robert Antoni, Nalo Hopkinson, and others. An impressively sophisticated accomplishment.

Rey Chow, Anne Firor Scott Professor of Literature, Duke University, USA

Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze is a brilliant and spirited defense of the intimate relevancy of Deleuzian thought to Caribbean thinkers including Aimé and Suzanne Césaire, René Ménil, Derek Walcott, and above all, Wilson Harris and Edouard Glissant. Moving with grace and sophistication between philosophical and literary critique, Burns shows how a panoply of Deleuzian concepts inform and enrich our understanding of Caribbean literary thought and creation.

Nick Nesbitt, Princeton University, USA

An incisive intervention in contested waters and a significant contribution to Caribbean and postcolonial studies.

Professor Ronald Bogue, University of Georgia, USA

With Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze, Lorna Burns has produced a sophisticated, challenging intervention in the field [of postcolonial studies] . . . To say there is much to contest in this study is less a criticism than a testament to the eloquence and force with which Burns makes her case.

Michael Niblett, University of Warwick, Journal of Postcolonial Writing

[This book] should be required reading for students of postcolonial theory ... [I]mportant, challenging, and a pleasure to read.

Françoise Lionnet, University of California, USA, H-France Review