Beyond Homophobia: Centring LGBTQ Experiences in the Anglophone Caribbean - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9766407444 ISBN 13: 9789766407445

Verlag: University of the West Indies Press, 2020

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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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Erin C. MacLeod teaches at Vanier College in Montreal, Canada, and has also served as a Lecturer at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Her books include Visions of Zion: Ethiopians and Rastafari in the Search for the Promised Land (NYU Press) and Let Us Start With Africa: Foundations of Rastafari Scholarship (UWI Press) with co-editor Jahlani Niaah. Moji Anderson is Senior Lecturer, the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. She is co-founder of Beyond Homophobia.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of the West Indies Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9766407444
• ISBN 13: 9789766407445
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
• Herausgeber: Anderson Moji, Macleod Erin C.
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