Overview

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.

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Author:   Moji Anderson ,  Erin MacLeod
Publisher:   University of the West Indies Press
Imprint:   University of the West Indies Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.378kg
ISBN:  

9789766407445

ISBN 10:   9766407444
Pages:   268
Publication Date:   30 June 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Foreword Thomas Glave Introduction Moji Anderson and Erin C. MacLeod Part 1. Centring Praxis Tales from the Field: Myths and Methodologies for Researching Same Sex–Desiring People in the Caribbean Nikoli Attai, K. Nandini Ghisyawan, Rajanie Preity Kumar and Carla Moore Inclusion of LGBTQ Students in Jamaican Teacher Education: Religiosity, Respectability and Resistance Carol Hordatt Gentles and Vileitha Davis-Morrison Level 5: Betwixt and Between ""Homophobia"" in Trinidad and Tobago Keith E. McNeal Part 2. Queering the Spiritual, Queering the Artistic I Am a Messenger: Spiritual Baptism and the Queer Afterlife of Faith Lyndon K. Gill A Symphony in Four Movements: Religion, Syphilis and Homosexuality in Marlon James's John Crow's Devil Anna Kasafi Perkins he Sodom of the New World: A Queer Claim to Historical Belonging Nick Marsellas Iconicity and Eroticism in the Photography of Archie Lindo O'Neil Lawrence Brave ""Battymen"" and the (Im)Possibilities of a Straight Dancehall Carla Moore Part 3. Telling Stories, Finding Self In Search of the Dead: (Un)Marked Graves and the Sea of We Thomas Glave ""What a Writer Is"": A Presentation Given at the Beyond Homophobia Conference Andre Bagoo ""Hey Lara"" Dorothea Smartt Part 4. Activism and Action Toward a Working-Class Queer Agenda and Leadership in Jamaica Adwoa Onuora and Ajamu Nangwaya Pride, Vulgarity and Imagination Colin Robinson So: Queer Life Beyond and Against Homophobia Rinaldo Walcott Afterword Kei Miller Contributors"

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Moji Anderson is Senior Lecturer, the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. She is co-founder of Beyond Homophobia. Erin MacLeod teaches at Vanier College, Montreal, Canada. Her publications include Visions of Zion: Ethiopians and Rastafari in the Search for the Promised Land and (co-edited with Jahlani Niaah) Let Us Start with Africa: Foundations of Rastafari Scholarship.

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