"Sex and the Citizen" is a multidisciplinary collection of
essays that draws on current anxieties about "legitimate" sexual
identities and practices across the Caribbean to explore both the
impact of globalization and the legacy of the region's history of
sexual exploitation during colonialism, slavery, and indentureship.
Speaking from within but also challenging the assumptions of
feminism, literary and cultural studies, and queer studies, this
volume questions prevailing oppositions between the backward,
homophobic nation-state and the laid-back, service-with-a-smile
paradise or between giving in ignominiously to the autocratic
demands of the global north and equating postcolonial sovereignty
with a "wholesome" heterosexual citizenry.
The contributors use parliamentary legislation, novels, film,
and other texts to examine Martinique's relationship to France; the
diasporic relationships between the Dominican Republic and New York
City, between India and Trinidad, and between Mexico's capital city
and its Caribbean coast; "indigenous" names for sexual practices
and desires in Suriname and the Eastern Caribbean; and other
topics. This volume will appeal to readers interested in how sex
has become an important register for considerations of citizenship,
personal and political autonomy, and identity in the Caribbean and
the global south.
"Contributors" Vanessa Agard-Jones * Odile Cazenave * Michelle
Cliff * Susan Dayal * Alison Donnell * Donette Francis * Carmen
Gillespie* Rosamond S. King * Antonia MacDonald-Smythe * Tejaswini
Niranjana * Evelyn O'Callaghan * Tracy Robinson * Patricia Saunders
* Yasmin Tambiah * Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley * Rinaldo Walcott * M.
S. Worrell
General
| Imprint: |
University of Virginia Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
April 2011 |
| First published: |
April 2011 |
| Editors: |
Faith Smith
|
| Dimensions: |
235 x 155 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
336 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8139-3112-8 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-8139-3112-6 |
| Barcode: |
9780813931128 |
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