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Informationen zum Autor Thomas Glave is the author of the short story collections Whose Song? and Other Stories and The Torturer's Wife, and the essay collections Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent (Lambda Literary Award, 2005) and Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh. A founding member of the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals, and Gays (J-FLAG), Glave has been Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Professor at MIT, a 2012 Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge, and Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Warwick. He lives in Birmingham (U.K.). Klappentext An anthology of queer writing from the Caribbean. Zusammenfassung The first anthology of lesbian and gay writing from the Caribbean. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Desire through the Archipelago / Thomas Glave 1 Lulú or the Metamorphosis (1995) / José Alcántara Almánzar, Dominican Republic 13 Property Values (2001) / Aldo Alvarez, Puerto Rico 21 Eroticism (1992) / Reinaldo Arenas, Cuba 34 Three Poems: Saturday Night in San Juan with the Right Sailors (2004), Almost a Revolution for Two in Bed (2004), Tropical Fever (2003) / Rane Arroyo, Puerto Rico/US 51 Three Poems: Transactions (2001), San Francisco - New Orleans (2001), The Image Saves (1994) / Jesús J. Barquet, Cuba 53 Somebody Has to Cry (1998) / Marilyn Bobes, Cuba 57 Elizere, Beckoned (1996) / Dionne Brand, Trinidad 70 "Bullers" and "Battymen": Contesting Homophobia in Black Popular Culture and Contemporary Caribbean Literature (1997) / Timothy S. Chin, Jamaica 78 Ecce Homo (2002) / Michelle Cliff, Jamaica 97 History, (Re)Memory, Testimony, and Biomythography: Charting a Buller Man's Trinidadian Past (2004) / Wesley E. A. Crichlow, Trinidad 101 Other Islanders on Lesbos: A Retrospective Look at the History of Lesbians in Cuba (2004) / Mabel Cuesta, Cuba 132 Autonomy in Lesbian-Feminist Politics (2004) / Ochy Curiel, Dominican Republic 142 Three Poems: Young Faggot (2003), The Magical Real (2003), Surrender (2003) / Faizal Deen, Guyana/Trinidad 153 The Portrait (1998) / Pero de Jesús, Cuba 158 Tante Merle (1999) / R. Erica Doyle, Trinidad/U.S. 173 Whose Caribbean? An Allegory in Part (2005) / Thomas Glave, Jamaica/U.S. 177 More Notes on the Invisibility of Caribbean Lesbians (2005) / Rosamond S. King, Trinidad 191 Independence Day Letter (2004) / Helen Klonaris, Babamas 197 De un pájaro las dos alas: Travel Notes of a Queer Puerto Rican in Havana (2002) / Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Puerto Rico 202 Of Generators and Survival: Hugo Letter (1990), From Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982) / Audre Lorde, Grenada/Barbados/U.S. 233 Out on Main Street (1993) / Shani Mootoo, Trinidad/Ireland 252 Time and Tide (2002) / Anton Nimblett, Trinidad 261 We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? (1994) / Achy Obejas, Cuba 268 The Hunter (1999) / Leonardo Padura Fuentes, Cuba 281 The Face (1956) / Virgilio Piñera, Cuba 290 Dale and Ian (1994) / Patricia Powell, Jamaica 296 Genesis (2003) / Kevin Everod Quashie, St. Kitts 304 Bayamón, Brooklyn y yo (1987) / Juanita Ramos, Puerto Rico 308 The Mechanic (1998) / Colin Robinson, Trinidad 316 Haiti: A Memory Journey (1996) / Assotto Saint, Haiti 320 Johnnie, London, 1960 (1960) / Andrew Salkey, Jamaica/Panama 325 I Want to Follow My Friend (1994) / Lawrence Scott, Trinidad 336 Man Royals and Sodomites: Some Thoughts on the Invisibility of Afro-Caribbean Lesbians / Makeda Silvera, Jamaica 344 Jerome (1993) / H. Nigel Thomas, St. Vincent 355 Fragments of Toronto's Black Queer Community: From a Life Still Being Lived (2005) / Rinaldo Walcott, Barbados/Canada 360 Mati-ism and Black Lesbianism:; Two Idealtypical Expressions of Female Homosexuality in Black Communities of the Diaspora (1996) / Gl...
