Edison honors the ancestors, academic and spiritual. His idea of ashé aesthetics combines Yoruba- and Bantu-derived concepts of faith, death, time, music, and language with a literary and critical dialogue that spans Carpentier and the pioneers of US Afro-Hispanism to today's critical rediscovery of Zapata, showing that the African diaspora unites diverse generations, nations, and communities.
— John T. Maddox IV, University of Alabama at Birmingham
In this book, Thomas W. Edison argues convincingly in support of the importance of the philosophical concept of Ashe' to the worldviews of the selected Cuban and Afro-Hispanic authors. Ashe', in this context, underscores the resistance to the oppression and dehumanization of black peoples and is an integral component of the cultural maroonage that has sustained them throughout the African Diaspora. Ashé-Caribbean Literary Aesthetic in the Cuban, Colombian, Costa Rican, and Panamanian Novel of Resistance is original, thoroughly researched, meticulously documented, and represents an excellent example of literary intertextually in critical practice.
— Marvin A. Lewis, University of Missouri