Beyond Homophobia

Centring LGBTQ Experiences in the Anglophone Caribbean

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

AvMoji Anderson,Erin MacLeod,Erin C. MacLeod,Erin C MacLeod

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Beyond Homophobia: Centring LGBTQ Experiences in the Anglophone Caribbean 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. Beyond Homophobia combines a variety of academic disciplines with poetry and prose. Its contributions move from cyberspace to the dancehall, from literary analysis to ethnographic research, from pedagogical to methodological concerns, and from thoughts on the past to ideas about the future. The collection presents a range of perspectives on and techniques with which to interrogate notions of identity, sexualities, victimhood, agency, activism, fluidity, fixity, visibility, invisibility, class, homophobia, coming out, belonging and spirituality. By illuminating the lives, experiences, and research of and about the queer anglophone Caribbean, this volume represents a concerted attempt to move Beyond Homophobia.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-06-11
Mått152 x 228 x 15 mm
Vikt378 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor268
FörlagUniversity of the West Indies Press
ISBN9789766407445

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ForewordThomas GlaveIntroductionMoji Anderson and Erin C. MacLeodPart 1. Centring PraxisTales from the Field: Myths and Methodologies for Researching Same Sex–Desiring People in the CaribbeanNikoli Attai, K. Nandini Ghisyawan, Rajanie Preity Kumar and Carla MooreInclusion of LGBTQ Students in Jamaican Teacher Education: Religiosity, Respectability and ResistanceCarol Hordatt Gentles and Vileitha Davis-MorrisonLevel 5: Betwixt and Between "Homophobia" in Trinidad and TobagoKeith E. McNealPart 2. Queering the Spiritual, Queering the ArtisticI Am a Messenger: Spiritual Baptism and the Queer Afterlife of FaithLyndon K. GillA Symphony in Four Movements: Religion, Syphilis and Homosexuality in Marlon James's John Crow's DevilAnna Kasafi Perkinshe Sodom of the New World: A Queer Claim to Historical BelongingNick MarsellasIconicity and Eroticism in the Photography of Archie LindoO'Neil LawrenceBrave "Battymen" and the (Im)Possibilities of a Straight DancehallCarla MoorePart 3. Telling Stories, Finding SelfIn Search of the Dead: (Un)Marked Graves and the Sea of WeThomas Glave"What a Writer Is": A Presentation Given at the Beyond Homophobia ConferenceAndre Bagoo"Hey Lara"Dorothea SmarttPart 4. Activism and ActionToward a Working-Class Queer Agenda and Leadership in JamaicaAdwoa Onuora and Ajamu NangwayaPride, Vulgarity and ImaginationColin RobinsonSo: Queer Life Beyond and Against HomophobiaRinaldo WalcottAfterwordKei MillerContributors