Research Catalog

Title

The sexual politics of empire : postcolonial homophobia in Haiti / Erin L. Durban.

Author

Durban, Erin

Publication

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2022]

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Details

Description

xxiii, 234 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"Evangelical Christians and members of the global LGBTQI human rights movement have vied for influence in Haiti since the 2010 earthquake. Each side accuses the other of serving foreign interests. Yet each proposes future foreign interventions on behalf of their respective causes despite the country's traumatic past with European colonialism and American imperialism. As Erin L. Durban shows, two discourses dominate discussions of intervention. One maintains imperialist notions of a backward Haiti so riddled with cultural deficiencies that foreign supervision is necessary to overcome Haitians' resistance to progress. The other sees Haiti as a modern but failed state that exists only through its capacity for violence, including homophobia. In the context of these competing claims, Durban explores the creative ways that same-sex desiring and gender creative Haitians contend with anti-LGBTQI violence and ongoing foreign intervention. Compelling and thought-provoking, The Sexual Politics of Empire examines LGBTQI life in contemporary Haiti against the backdrop of American imperialism and intervention"--

Series Statement

National Women's Studies Association / University of Illinois First Book Prize

Uniform Title

National Women's Studies Association/University of Illinois first book prize.

Subject

• Homophobia > Haiti
• Homophobia > Religious aspects > Christianity
• Sexual minorities > Haiti > Social conditions
• Homophobia
• LGBTQ+ phobia
• Sexual minorities
• Social conditions
• Haiti

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Perverting Haiti: the transnational imperialist discourse of the Black republic as the premodern land of "voodoo/vaudoux" -- The missionary position: U.S. Protestant missionaries and religious homophobia -- Evangelical Christian homophobia and the Michèle Pierre-Louis controversy -- "Zonbi, zonbi" at the ghetto biennale: a queer act of intervention against postcolonial homophobia -- The sexual politics of rescue: the global LGBTQI and postcolonial homophobia after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti -- The emergence of a social movement against homophobia -- Epilogue: the transnational #blacklivesmatter movement and the serialization of Black (queer) death.

Call Number

ReCAP 23-3596

ISBN

• 9780252086847
• 0252086848

LCCN

2022021135

OCLC

1319009592

Author

Durban, Erin, author.

Title

The sexual politics of empire : postcolonial homophobia in Haiti / Erin L. Durban.

Publisher

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2022]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

National Women's Studies Association / University of Illinois First Book Prize

National Women's Studies Association/University of Illinois first book prize.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Durban, Erin. Sexual politics of empire Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2022] 9780252053801 (DLC) 2022021136

Research Call Number

ReCAP 23-3596