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By showing how a wide, and surprising, range of Caribbean writers have contributed to the crafting of a supple and inclusive erotic repertoire across the second half of the twentieth century, the readings in this book aim to demonstrate that a recognition of creolized and pluralized sexualities already exists within the literary imagination.
List of contents
Introduction: Undoing Heteronormativity and the Erotics of Creolization
1 The Queer Creolized Caribbean
2 Creolizing Heterosexuality: Curdella Forbes’s “A Permanent Freedom” and Shani Mootoo’s
Valmiki’s Daughter 3 Caribbean Freedoms and Queering Homonormativity: Andrew Salkey’s
Escape to an Autumn Pavement 4 Queering Caribbean Homophobia: Non-heteronormative Hypermasculinity in Marlon James’s
A Brief History of Seven Killings and Junot Díaz’s
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 5 Imagining Impossible Possibilities: Shani Mootoo’s
Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab and Selected Writings by Thomas Glave
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index
About the author
ALISON DONNELL is a professor of modern literatures in English and head of the School of Literature, Creative Writing, and Drama at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England.
