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Our Caribbean Thomas Glave

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Zusammenfassung

The first anthology of lesbian and gay writing from the Caribbean.

Our Caribbean Zusammenfassung

Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles Thomas Glave

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

Our Caribbean Bewertungen

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
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
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
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 *
[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 *
Glave has given us a valuable record of the real beauty and brutality that lurks behind the travel posters. -- Harry E. Baldwin * Frontiers *
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
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 *
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 *

Über Thomas Glave

Thomas Glave is the author of the short story collections Whose Song? and Other Stories and The Torturer's Wife, and the essay collections Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent (Lambda Literary Award, 2005) and Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh. A founding member of the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals, and Gays (J-FLAG), Glave has been Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Professor at MIT, a 2012 Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge, and Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Warwick. He lives in Birmingham (U.K.).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Desire through the Archipelago / Thomas Glave 1
Lulu or the Metamorphosis (1995) / Jose Alcantara Almanzar, Dominican Republic 13
Property Values (2001) / Aldo Alvarez, Puerto Rico 21
Eroticism (1992) / Reinaldo Arenas, Cuba 34
Three Poems: Saturday Night in San Juan with the Right Sailors (2004), Almost a Revolution for Two in Bed (2004), Tropical Fever (2003) / Rane Arroyo, Puerto Rico/US 51
Three Poems: Transactions (2001), San Francisco - New Orleans (2001), The Image Saves (1994) / Jesus J. Barquet, Cuba 53
Somebody Has to Cry (1998) / Marilyn Bobes, Cuba 57
Elizere, Beckoned (1996) / Dionne Brand, Trinidad 70
Bullers and Battymen: Contesting Homophobia in Black Popular Culture and Contemporary Caribbean Literature (1997) / Timothy S. Chin, Jamaica 78
Ecce Homo (2002) / Michelle Cliff, Jamaica 97
History, (Re)Memory, Testimony, and Biomythography: Charting a Buller Man's Trinidadian Past (2004) / Wesley E. A. Crichlow, Trinidad 101
Other Islanders on Lesbos: A Retrospective Look at the History of Lesbians in Cuba (2004) / Mabel Cuesta, Cuba 132
Autonomy in Lesbian-Feminist Politics (2004) / Ochy Curiel, Dominican Republic 142
Three Poems: Young Faggot (2003), The Magical Real (2003), Surrender (2003) / Faizal Deen, Guyana/Trinidad 153
The Portrait (1998) / Pero de Jesus, Cuba 158
Tante Merle (1999) / R. Erica Doyle, Trinidad/U.S. 173
Whose Caribbean? An Allegory in Part (2005) / Thomas Glave, Jamaica/U.S. 177
More Notes on the Invisibility of Caribbean Lesbians (2005) / Rosamond S. King, Trinidad 191
Independence Day Letter (2004) / Helen Klonaris, Babamas 197
De un pajaro las dos alas: Travel Notes of a Queer Puerto Rican in Havana (2002) / Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Puerto Rico 202
Of Generators and Survival: Hugo Letter (1990), From Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982) / Audre Lorde, Grenada/Barbados/U.S. 233
Out on Main Street (1993) / Shani Mootoo, Trinidad/Ireland 252
Time and Tide (2002) / Anton Nimblett, Trinidad 261
We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? (1994) / Achy Obejas, Cuba 268
The Hunter (1999) / Leonardo Padura Fuentes, Cuba 281
The Face (1956) / Virgilio Pinera, Cuba 290
Dale and Ian (1994) / Patricia Powell, Jamaica 296
Genesis (2003) / Kevin Everod Quashie, St. Kitts 304
Bayamon, Brooklyn y yo (1987) / Juanita Ramos, Puerto Rico 308
The Mechanic (1998) / Colin Robinson, Trinidad 316
Haiti: A Memory Journey (1996) / Assotto Saint, Haiti 320
Johnnie, London, 1960 (1960) / Andrew Salkey, Jamaica/Panama 325
I Want to Follow My Friend (1994) / Lawrence Scott, Trinidad 336
Man Royals and Sodomites: Some Thoughts on the Invisibility of Afro-Caribbean Lesbians / Makeda Silvera, Jamaica 344
Jerome (1993) / H. Nigel Thomas, St. Vincent 355
Fragments of Toronto's Black Queer Community: From a Life Still Being Lived (2005) / Rinaldo Walcott, Barbados/Canada 360
Mati-ism and Black Lesbianism:; Two Idealtypical Expressions of Female Homosexuality in Black Communities of the Diaspora (1996) / Gloria Wekker, Suriname 368
On Homophobia and Gay Rights Activism in Jamaica (2000) / Lawson Williams, Jamaica 382
Glossary 389
Contributors 393

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Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles Thomas Glave
Thomas Glave
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Duke University Press
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Runner-up for IndieFab awards (Anthologies) 2008
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