Read more
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.
Summary
Draws attention to a wide, and surprising, range of writings that craft inclusive and pluralizing representations of sexual possibilities within the Caribbean imagination. Reading across an eclectic range of writings, this bold work of literary criticism brings into view fictional worlds where Caribbeanness and queerness correspond and reconcile.
