A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being (Duke University Press), by US scholar Kaiama L. Glover, is an insightful study of “unruly female protagonists” in Caribbean fiction “who adamantly refuse the constraints of coercive communities…. The women of these texts” — novels by authors such as Marie Chauvet, Maryse Condé, Jamaica Kincaid, and Marlon James — “offend, disturb, and reorder the world around them. They challenge the primacy of the community over the individual and propose provocative forms of subjecthood.”