Sex and the citizen interrogating the Caribbean / edited by Faith Smith.

Other author Smith, Faith, 1964-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCharlottesville : University of Virginia Press,
Descriptionvii, 292 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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SeriesNew World studies
New World studies. ^A325511
Contents Buyers beware, "hoodwinking" on the rise: epistemologies of consumption in Terry McMillan's Caribbean / Patricia Saunders -- "Nobody ent billing me": a U.S./Caribbean intertextual, intercultural call-and-response / Carmen Gillespie -- Novel insights: sex work, secrets, and depression in Angie Cruz's Soledad / Donette Francis -- Against the rules of blackness: Hilton Als's The women and Jamaica Kincaid's My brother (or how to raise black queer kids) / Rinaldo Walcott -- Francophone Caribbean women writers: rethinking identity, sexuality, and citizenship / Odile Cazenave -- Indian nationalism and female sexuality: a Trinidadian tale / Tejaswini Niranjana -- Caribbean migrations: negotiating borders / Evelyn O'Callaghan -- Reflections on she web / Susan Dayal -- Threatening sexual (mis)behavior: homosexuality in the penal code debates in Trinidad and Tobago, 1986 / Yasmin Tambiah -- Sexual awakenings and malignant fictions of masculinity in Alfonso Cuáron's Y tu mamá también / M.S. Worrell -- Living and loving: emancipating the Caribbean queer citizen in Shani Mootoo's Cereus blooms at night / Alison Donnell -- Le jeu de qui? Sexual politics at play in the French Caribbean / Vanessa Agard-Jones -- Our imagined lives / Tracy Robinson -- New citizens, new sexualities: nineteenth-century Jamettes / Rosamond S. King -- Macocotte: an exploration of same-sex friendship in selected Caribbean novels / Antonia MacDonald-Smythe -- What is a Uma? Women performing gender and sexuality in Paramaribo, Suriname / Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley -- Colonial girl: and what would it be like / Michelle Cliff.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [257]-284) and index.
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