Research Catalog

Title

Our Caribbean : a gathering of lesbian and gay writing from the Antilles / edited and with an introduction by Thomas Glave.

Publication

Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

Glave, Thomas.

Description

viii, 405 p.; 25 cm.

Alternative Title

Gathering of lesbian and gay writing from the Antilles

Subjects

• Gay people's writings, Caribbean
• Caribbean literature (English) > 21st century
• Caribbean literature > 21st century > Translations into English
• Caribbean literature (English) > 20th century
• Caribbean literature > 20th century > Translations into English
• Homosexuality > Caribbean Area
• Gays' writings, Caribbean

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Awards (note)

• Lambda Literary Awards, 2009: LGBT Anthologies.

Contents

Introduction : desire through the Archipelago / Thomas Glave -- Lulú or the metamorphosis / José Alcántara Almánzar -- Property values / Aldo Alvarez -- Eroticism / Reinaldo Arenas -- Three poems : Saturday night in San Juan with the right sailors ; Almost a revolution for two in bed ; Tropical fever / Rane Arroyo -- Three poems : Transactions ; San Francisco-New Orleans ; The image saves / Jesús J. Barquet -- Somebody has to cry / Marilyn Bobes -- Elizete, beckoned / Dionne Brand -- "Bullers" and "battymen" : contesting homophobia in black popular culture and contemporary Caribbean literature / Timothy S. Chin -- Ecce homo / Michelle Cliff -- History, (Re)memory, testimony, and biomythography : charting a Buller man's Trinidadian past / Wesley E.A. Crichlow -- Other islanders on Lesbos : a retrospective look at the history of lesbians in Cuba / Mabel Cuesta -- Autonomy in lesbian-feminist politics / Ochy Curiel -- Three poems : Young faggot ; The magical real ; Surrender / Faizal Deen -- The portrait / Pedro de Jesús -- Tante Merle / R. Erica Doyle -- Whose Caribbean? : an allegory, in part / Thomas Glave -- More notes on the invisibility of Caribbean lesbians / Rosamond S. King -- Independence Day letter / Helen Klonaris -- De un pájaro las dos alas : travel notes of a queer Puerto Rican in Havana / Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes -- Of generators and survival : Hugo letter ; From Zami : a new spelling of my name / Audre Lorde -- Out on Main Street / Shani Mootoo -- Time and tide / Anton Nimblett -- We came all the way from Cuba so you could dress like this? / Achy Objeas -- The hunter / Leonardo Padura Fuentes -- The face / Virgilio Piñera -- Dale and Ian / Patricia Powell -- Genesis / Kevin Everod Quashie -- Bayamón, Brooklyn / Juanita Ramos -- The mechanic / Colin Robinson -- Haiti : a memory journey / Assotto Saint -- Johnnie, London, 1960 / Andrew Salkey -- I want to follow my friend / Lawrence Scott -- Man royals and sodomites : some thoughts on the invisibility of Afro-Caribbean lesbians / Makeda Silvera -- Jerome / H. Nigel Thomas -- Fragments of Toronto's black queer community : from a life still being lived / Rinaldo Walcott -- Mati-ism and black lesbianism : two idealtypical expressions of female homosexuality in black communities of the diaspora / Gloria Wekker -- On homophobia and gay rights activism in Jamaica / Lawson Williams.

Call Number

JFE 12-7966

ISBN

• 9780822342083 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0822342081 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780822342267 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 082234226X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007044901

OCLC

183161697

Title

Our Caribbean : a gathering of lesbian and gay writing from the Antilles / edited and with an introduction by Thomas Glave.

Imprint

Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Awards

Lambda Literary Awards, 2009: LGBT Anthologies.

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Table of contents

Added Author

Glave, Thomas.

Other Form:

Online version: Our Caribbean. Durham : Duke University Press, 2008 (OCoLC)652168561

Research Call Number

JFE 12-7966