Our Caribbean – A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles

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The first book of its kind, "Our Caribbean" is an anthology of lesbian and gay writing from across the Antilles. The author and activist Thomas Glave has gathered outstanding fiction, nonfiction, memoir, and poetry by little-known writers together with selections by internationally celebrated figures such as JosE AlcAntara AlmAnzar, Reinaldo Arenas, Dionne Brand, Michelle Cliff, Audre Lorde, Achy Obejas, and Assotto Saint. The result is an unprecedented literary conversation on gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered experiences throughout the Caribbean and its far-flung diaspora. Many selections were originally published in Spanish, Dutch, or creole languages; some are translated into English here for the first time. The thirty-seven authors hail from the Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Panama, Puerto Rico, St. Vincent, St. Kitts, Suriname, and Trinidad. Many have lived outside the Caribbean, and their writing depicts histories of voluntary migration as well as exile from repressive governments, communities, and families. Many pieces have a political urgency that reflects their authors' work as activists, teachers, community organizers, and performers. Desire commingles with ostracism and alienation throughout: in the evocative portrayals of same-sex love and longing, and in the selections addressing religion, family, race, and class. From the poem "Saturday Night in San Juan with the Right Sailors" to the poignant narrative "We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?" to an eloquent call for the embrace of difference that appeared in the "Nassau Daily Tribune" on the eve of an anti-gay protest, "Our Caribbean" is a brave and necessary book.
"Contributors" JosE AlcAntara AlmAnzar, Aldo Alvarez, Reinaldo Arenas, Rane Arroyo, JesUs J. Barquet, Marilyn Bobes, Dionne Brand, Timothy S. Chin, Michelle Cliff, Wesley E. A. Crichlow,
Mabel RodrIguez Cuesta, Ochy Curiel, Faizal Deen, Pedro de JesUs, R. Erica Doyle, Thomas Glave,
Rosamond S. King, Helen Klonaris, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Audre Lorde, Shani Mootoo,
Anton Nimblett, Achy Obejas, Leonardo Padura Fuentes, Virgilio PiNera, Patricia Powell, Kevin Everod Quashie, Juanita Ramos, Colin Robinson, Assotto Saint, Andrew Salkey, Lawrence Scott,
Makeda Silvera, H. Nigel Thomas, Rinaldo Walcott, Gloria Wekker, Lawson Williams

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822342267
ISBN-10: 082234226X
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 155 x 234 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

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"Traversing boundaries of geography, history, language, and desire, Thomas Glave has assembled a poignant testament of how we dare to love differently and yearn for justice in the same breath...Necessary and timely."--M. Jacqui Alexander, author of "Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred"

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""Our Caribbean" is a superb anthology. Thomas Glave does not exaggerate when he writes that this is 'a book that I and others have been waiting for and have wanted for all our lives.' Here we have a book that makes literal the ongoing necessity to write 'against silence.'"--Elizabeth Alexander, author of "American Blue: Selected Poems"
""Our Caribbean" will likely become a classic compilation and a must-read for anyone who wants to learn more about what it means to be from the Antilles region of the world and to find a home in the LGBT community." - Rachel Pepper, "Curve"
"Glave has given us a valuable record of the real beauty and brutality that lurks behind the travel posters." - Harry E. Baldwin, "Frontiers"
"You need to take time with this collection. It is a delicious gathering of voices, all different, but with interweaving themes. You cannot rush this experience. From the luscious, sexy racy prose to the cutting edge politics, every line has shape and depth and plays upon you long after the reading. This book will rock you, rock within you, like "This Bridge Called My Back", edited by Cherie Moraga, did in the 1970's." - Cathie Koa Dunsford, Asia and Pacific Writers Network
"[An] important and amazing collection. . . . All of the essays, fiction, and poems in this collection impress, and with this text, Glave has created a very important addition to the growing shelf of international GLBT literature." - Michael G. Cornelius, "Bloomsbury Review"
"You don't have to be gay, lesbian, or Caribbean . . . to appreciate this anthology, though it is certainly a seminal contribution to the fields of Caribbean literature and gay and lesbian studies. Most of its contents are worth reading for the drama, sensitivity, and complexity required of such identities." - Emily Raboteau, "American Book Review"
"With excerpts from the work of luminaries like Audre Lorde, Reinaldo Arenas, Michelle Cliff, Assotto Saint, Achy Obejas, and Aldo Alvarez, there's no question this anthology has serious literary heft, beyond its import as a first-of-a-kind collection. But it's the lesser-known (and, in some cases, never-before translated) contributors who add value. . . . everal contributions are emphatically academic, footnotes and all, but these provide ballast for Glave's authentic, eclectic collection." - Richard Labonte
"Our Caribbean is a superb anthology. Thomas Glave does not exaggerate when he writes that this is 'a book that I and others have been waiting for and have wanted for all our lives.' Here we have a book that makes literal the ongoing necessity to write 'against silence.'" Elizabeth Alexander, author of American Blue: Selected Poems "Traversing boundaries of geography, history, language, and desire, Thomas Glave has assembled a poignant testament of how we dare to love differently and yearn for justice in the same breath... Necessary and timely."--M. Jacqui Alexander, author of Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred "[S]uperb for what it does, for what it wants to do, and for what many of its readers hope it inaugurates."--Kelly Baker Josephs, Caribbean Review of Books "You don't have to be gay, lesbian, or Caribbean ... To appreciate this anthology, though it is certainly a seminal contribution to the fields of Caribbean literature and gay and lesbian studies. Most of its contents are worth reading for the drama, sensitivity, and complexity required of such identities."--Emily Raboteau, American Book Review "Thomas Glave certainly must be credited with a profound generosity of vision having brought together and given voice to all the writers and all of the histories, individual and collective, included in this volume... [Our Caribbean] certainly deserves to inspire future writers and artists to build on and expand from its important and vital foundational work."--Ricardo L. Ortiz, Lambda Book Report "[A]nthologies like Our Caribbean reminds us that the breadth of Gay and Lesbian experience is more wide and varied, and richer, then we normally realize... You will fall in love with many of the authors in this book."--Dan Vera, White Crane Journal "The rich variety of material, and the mix of well-known authors--such as Audre Lorde, Michelle Cliff, Reinaldo Arenas, Jose Alcantara Almanzar--and lesser well-known and less-circulated authors are some of the most striking features of the collection... [T]he collection is a much-needed contribution to both queer studies and Caribbean studies, and we may hope that future discussion of same-sex experience will build on the engaging and multifarious writings in Our Caribbean."--Grainne O'Connell, GLQ "[T]his anthology is bold and brave - as well as timely and most welcome. It offers more complex and modulated representations of lesbian and gay sexualities than the prevailing focus on homophobia in Caribbean popular cultural forms allows. The 37 writers from across the Caribbean whose work is gathered together here provide diverse, engaging and powerful testimonies of the complicated, painful - and pleasurable - realities of being Caribbean and queer. , , , This anthology needs to be read and responded to because of the merits of the individual contributions but also because its collective significance suggests possibilities not 'just' for how lesbian and gay subjects are interpellated within Caribbean discourses, but for how constructions of Caribbean subjectivity more broadly might be unsettled and revisioned."--Denise Decaires-Narain, Darkmatter "[W]hat unites Our Caribbean is the simple, palpable need of the authors to let their voices be heard, as they write about and often against their experiences as gay women and men in a region that is a long, long way from getting to grips with what continues to be a taboo subject. This is a groundbreaking work, one whose mere existence should be celebrated. It is also the beginning of a conversation one can only hope will widen and grow louder."--Caribbean Beat "Featuring 37 authors from over 16 Caribbean nations, including Barbados, the book represents an unprecedented literary conversation on gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered experiences throughout the Caribbean and its far-flung Diaspora. The new anthology is part of the ongoing works of Caribbean writers to bring varied ideas on sexuality into the same public sphere as popular culture."--Khalil Goodman, Barbados Advocate "This book is an excellent contribution to Third World and Black Feminist studies, Black and Queer of Color critique... The gathering that is Our Caribbean presents a new challenge to the processes of silence and invisibility facing same-gender-desiring peoples of the Caribbean and its diaspora. These narratives are tangible and proof of life, pointing to and providing a means with which we may sustain an interrogation of material, symbolic, and structural oppression, thus ushering in new voices and new futures in Caribbean literature."--Alix Chapman, E3W Review of Books "[I]n gathering the collection around the focus of shared experiences--current and historical, the regionality of the collection makes sense. The majority of the anthology is made up of fairly recent, if not new writing, and some of it is translated into English for the first time. It is an exciting collection for anyone working on the queer postcolonial..."--Shamira A. Meghani, Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory '[T]he book is reader-friendly... It has connectivity with music, literature, the visual arts, and public culture at large in the Caribbean and its various lingual domains. It could well anchor a course on the region as a textbook upon which to assemble added materials."--Eduardo Gonzalez, ESTUDIOS INTERDISCIPLINARIOS dE AMERICA LATINA Y EL CARIBE "[A]n excellent collection... Our Caribbean is another crucial book published by Duke University Press, who are in the habit of churning those out."--Georges-Claude Guilbert, Cercles "While solidarity can literally save lives, however, and institutional acceptance is often the first step toward greater gains, it is on the front lines, within the separate communities to which the authors at once belong and do not belong, that Our Caribbean holds the greatest potential for influence. Its very existence is a challenge to the usual defensiveness of identity politics. For this reason--and because we all stand to benefit from a more inclusive cultural mindset--this book represents a profound achievement."--Courtney Arnold, ForeWord "With excerpts from the work of luminaries like Audre Lorde, Reinaldo Arenas, Michelle Cliff, Assotto Saint, Achy Obejas, and Aldo Alvarez, there's no question this anthology has serious literary heft, beyond its import as a first-of-a-kind collection. But it's the lesser-known (and, in some cases, never-before translated) contributors who add value... Everal contributions are emphatically academic, footnotes and all, but these provide ballast for Glave's authentic, eclectic collection."--Richard Labonte "Glave has given us a valuable record of the real beauty and brutality that lurks behind the travel posters."--Harry E. Baldwin, Frontiers "Our Caribbean will likely become a classic compilation and a must-read for anyone who wants to learn more about what it means to be from the Antilles region of the world and to find a home in the LGBT community."--Rachel Pepper, Curve "The literary works in here are as varied in style as they are in perspective, from journalistic academic essays, to poetry, to bittersweet humorous narratives and more."--Richard, fem.men.ist blog "You need to take time with this collection. It is a delicious gathering of voices, all different, but with interweaving themes. You cannot rush this experience. From the luscious, sexy racy prose to the cutting edge politics, every line has shape and depth and plays upon you long after the reading. This book will rock you, rock within you, like This Bridge Called My Back, edited by Cherie Moraga, did in the 1970's".--Cathie Koa Dunsford, Asia and Pacific Writers Network "[O]ne of the most innovative, gifted and important writers to emerge on the literary scene today..."--MOC Magazine "While the motivation is to highlight the struggles of the Caribbean LGBT community, the goal of the stories is to impart to the audience a population underserved and undernourished. Here's hoping that these writers will find mainstream success and be able to pen stories with happy endings."--Peter Piatkowski, Feminist Review blog "Some very rich and powerful themes are explored in this book. Let's make one thing clear. Caribbean writers are some of the best writers in the world. Get your copy of Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles. Read it with an open mind and see how it compares with writings from great Caribbean writers of the past. Please keep the conversation going. Every Jamaican should have equal rights to Jamaica."--Garvin Gray, Bonita Jamaica "[An] important and amazing collection... All of the essays, fiction, and poems in this collection impress, and with this text, Glave has created a very important addition to the growing shelf of international GLBT literature."--Michael G. Cornelius, Bloomsbury Review

Descriere

The first book of its kind, "Our Caribbean" is an anthology of lesbian and gay writing from across the Antilles. The author and activist Thomas Glave has gathered outstanding fiction, nonfiction, memoir, and poetry by little-known writers together with selections by internationally celebrated figures such as Jose Alcantara Almanzar, Reinaldo Arenas, Dionne Brand, Michelle Cliff, Audre Lorde, Achy Obejas, and Assotto Saint. The result is an unprecedented literary conversation on gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered experiences throughout the Caribbean and its far-flung diaspora. Many selections were originally published in Spanish, Dutch, or creole languages; some are translated into English here for the first time. The thirty-seven authors hail from the Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Panama, Puerto Rico, St. Vincent, St. Kitts, Suriname, and Trinidad. Many have lived outside the Caribbean, and their writing depicts histories of voluntary migration as well as exile from repressive governments, communities, and families. Many pieces have a political urgency that reflects their authors' work as activists, teachers, community organizers, and performers. Desire commingles with ostracism and alienation throughout: in the evocative portrayals of same-sex love and longing, and in the selections addressing religion, family, race, and class. From the poem "Saturday Night in San Juan with the Right Sailors" to the poignant narrative "We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?" to an eloquent call for the embrace of difference that appeared in the "Nassau Daily Tribune" on the eve of an anti-gay protest, "Our Caribbean" is a brave and necessary book.
"Contributors" Jose Alcantara Almanzar, Aldo Alvarez, Reinaldo Arenas, Rane Arroyo, Jesus J. Barquet, Marilyn Bobes, Dionne Brand, Timothy S. Chin, Michelle Cliff, Wesley E. A. Crichlow,
Mabel Rodriguez Cuesta, Ochy Curiel, Faizal Deen, Pedro de Jesus, R. Erica Doyle, Thomas Glave,
Rosamond S. King, Helen Klonaris, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Audre Lorde, Shani Mootoo,
Anton Nimblett, Achy Obejas, Leonardo Padura Fuentes, Virgilio Pinera, Patricia Powell, Kevin Everod Quashie, Juanita Ramos, Colin Robinson, Assotto Saint, Andrew Salkey, Lawrence Scott,
Makeda Silvera, H. Nigel Thomas, Rinaldo Walcott, Gloria Wekker, Lawson Williams

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