Erotic Cartographies - Decolonization and the Queer Caribbean Imagination

List of contents

List of Illustrations

Note on Trinidadian Language

Prologue

Part I: Introduction and Methodology

1 Introduction: Erotic Cartographies and the Decolonial

2 Subjective Mapping: Queer Decolonial Methodology

Part II: Confronting Binaries: Space, Gender, and Social Class

3 Being in Public: Queer Transnational Subjectivities

4 Contesting "Home": Unsettling Public-Private Boundaries

Part III: State, Religion, and Personhood

5 Religious Nationalism: Its Roots and Fruit

6 "Dealing Up with the Spirit": Spiritual Knowledge and Erotic Fulfillment

7 Conclusion

Appendix 1. Analytics Used for Maps

Appendix 2. Bio-Data of Research Participants

Acknowledgments

Notes

References

Index

 

About the author

KRYSTAL NANDINI GHISYAWAN is an independent Indo-Trinidadian queer scholar, educator, and activist currently living in Lawrenceville, Georgia.

Summary

Uses subjective mapping, a participatory data collection technique, to demonstrate how Trinidadian same-sex-loving women use their gender performance, erotic autonomy, and space-making practices to reinforce and resist colonial ascriptions on subject bodies.

Product details

• Authors: Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.01.2022
• EAN: 9781978821378
• ISBN: 978-1-978821-37-8
• No. of pages: 276
• Series: Critical Caribbean Studies
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories