Defiant bodies : making queer community in the Anglophone Caribbean /

In the Anglophone Caribbean, international queer human rights activists strategically located within and outside of the region have dominated many of the interventions seeking to address issues affecting people across the region, a trend that is premised on an idea that the Caribbean is extremely ho...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Attai, Nikoli Adrian (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2023].
Series:Critical Caribbean studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Queer liberation in the Anglophone Caribbean?
  • Liberating the queer Caribbean
  • On the ground : challenging sexual politics in the region
  • Between the walls : ruination and new sexual worlds in Barbados
  • Queens, kings and kinship networks : queer culture and trans(gressive) community-making
  • Rumshops, nightlife and the radical praxis of internal exile
  • Coda : a defiant politics of hope in the queer Caribbean.