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New Book: “Rhetoric of Resistance, Labor of Love”

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Warm congratulations to Dannabang Kuwabong (University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras) on the launch of his book Rhetoric of Resistance, Labor of Love: The Ecopoetics of Nationhood in the Poetry and Prose of Lasana M. Sekou (House of Nehesi Publishers), which was officially launched at the 22nd Annual St. Martin Book Fair on Friday, June 6, 2025.

Description: “This work explores the powerful intersections of ecology, culture, gothic stories, trauma of St. Martiners as immigrants in other lands, and nationhood in the literary work of Lasana M. Sekou—one of the Caribbean’s vital voices.”

Dannabang Kuwabong is a Ghanaian Canadian professor of English, who teaches Caribbean and Postcolonial Literature at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus. His areas of expertise include Caribbean Culture and Literature, Caribbean Women’s Literature, Caribbean Literature and the Environment, Trauma Theory and African Diaspora Literatures, and African Diaspora Drama and Performance.

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See more on the author at https://humanidades.uprrp.edu/ingles/?page_id=405

Warm congratulations to Dannabang Kuwabong (University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras) on the launch of his book Rhetoric of Resistance, Labor of Love: The Ecopoetics of Nationhood in the Poetry and Prose of Lasana M. Sekou (House of Nehesi Publishers), which was officially launched at the 22nd Annual St. Martin Book Fair on Friday, June 6,