Erotic Cartographies - Decolonization and the Queer Caribbean Imagination

Sommario

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

 

Info autore

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

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan
• Editore: Rutgers University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 14.01.2022
• EAN: 9781978821378
• ISBN: 978-1-978821-37-8
• Pagine: 276
• Serie: Critical Caribbean Studies
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche