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Beyond homophobia : centring LGBTQ experiences in the Anglophone Caribbean /
- Title
- Beyond homophobia : centring LGBTQ experiences in the Anglophone Caribbean / edited by Moji Anderson and Erin C. MacLeod ; contributors, Nikoli Attai [and 18 others].
- Publication
- Kingston, Jamaica : The University of the West Indies Press, 2020.
- ©2020
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- Description
- x, 256 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- Aims to disrupt the conventional rendering of the Caribbean as uniquely and deeply homophobic by focusing on the experiences and agency of LGBTQ people in the region. Presenting a wide range of perspectives and approaches, this book grew out of presentations at two groundbreaking events on the Jamaican campus of the University of the West Indies: a symposium discussing LGBTQ experiences and research in Jamaica, and a conference that expanded the focus to provide a regional scope. Activists, artists and academics came together to challenge and change the narratives about LGBTQ issues in the Caribbean, exploring sexualities, gender identities and queer practices beyond the discourse of violence, as well as the stereotypes, assumptions and limitations presented by conventional norms around gender and sexuality.--Provided by publisher.
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- Note
- "This book brings together academic papers, prose and poetry presented at the Beyond Homophobia symposium (2015) and conference (2017) at the University of the West Indies (UWI)"--Page 1.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Part 1. Centring Praxis. 1. Tales from the Field : Myths and Methodologies for Researching Same Sex-Desiring People in the Caribbean -- 2. Inclusion of LGBTQ Students Jamaican Teacher Education : Religiosity, Respectability and Resistance -- 3. Level 5 : Betwixt and between "Homophobia" in Trinidad and Tobago -- Part 2. Queering the Spiritual, Queering the Artistic 4. I am a Messenger : Spiritual Baptism and the Queer Afterlife of Faith -- 5. A symphony in Four Movements : Religion, Syphilis and Homosexuality and Marlon James's John Crow's Devil -- 6. The Sodom of the New World : A Queer Claim to Historical Belonging -- 7. Iconicity and Eroticism in the Photography of Archie Lindo -- 8. Brave "Battymen" and the (Im)Possibilities of a Straight Dancehall -- Part 3. Telling Stories, Finding Self. 9. In Search of the Dead : (Un)Marked Graves and the Sea of We -- 10. "What a Writer is" : A Presentation Given a the Beyond Homophobia Conference -- 11. Hey Lara -- Part 4. Activism and Action. 12. Toward a Working-Class Queer Agenda and Leadership in Jamaica -- 13. Pride, vulgarity and Imagination -- 14. So Queer Life Beyond and Against Homophobia -- Afterword.
- ISBN
- 9766407444
- 9789766407445
- LCCN
- 2020399568
- 99989181074
- 99987276691
- OCLC
- on1200846522
- 1200846522
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries