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Kaisa Ilmonen’s Queer Rebellion in the Novels of Michelle Cliff opens slowly, with the first two chapters presenting introductions to the theoretical and critical fields in which it is located and to the works that it engages. Although it could be dismissed as the paraphernalia of a dissertation, which is in the tradition of Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book clearly reproduces, the introduction offers a clear, thorough, wide-ranging, and at the same time remarkably concise overview of the key critical terms at play: the Caribbean, Postcolonial Studies, Caribbean studies, identity, intersectionality, creole, and queer. The introduction may be a bit …