[Review of: K.L. Glover (2021) A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being]

“Must a novel about a woman—about a Caribbean woman—present her righteousness in order for her to be counted among rights-deserving human subjects?” (p. 33) asks Kaiama L. Glover, in her meditation on how we as scholars of Caribbean thought narrate our contemporary critical considerations of intellectual histories and present-day public spheres. In A Regarded Self, she argues that any claim on community in “slavery’s long wake” means grappling with a long history of how “patriarchal white supremacy sets the term of human value,” and most importantly, necessitates paying far more critical attention to how the “insistent self-regard” of women understood as “disorderly” affords us as critics more realistic engagement with “the constraints and insufficiencies of what we often presume to be radical or expansive categories” (p. 37), such as hybridity, for example.