{"product_id":"erotic-cartographies-decolonization-and-the-queer-caribbean-imagination-9781978821378","title":"Erotic Cartographies: Decolonization and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eErotic Cartographies\u003c\/i\u003e 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. The women strategically embody their sexual identities to challenge imposed subject categories and to contest their invisibility and exclusion from discourses of belonging. \u003ci\u003eErotic Cartographies\u003c\/i\u003e refers to the processes of mapping territories of self-knowing and self-expression, both cognitively in the imagination and on paper during the mapping exercise, exploring how meaning is given to space, and how it is transformed. Using the women’s quotes and maps, the book focuses on the false binary of public-private, the practices of home and family, and religious nationalism and spiritual self-seeking, to demonstrate the women’s challenges to the structural, symbolic, and interpersonal violence of colonial discourses and practices related to gender, knowledge, and power in Trinidadian society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eErotic Cartographies\u003c\/i\u003e is a significant and a very welcome contribution to the small but growing body of scholarship on same-sex loving women in the Caribbean. Through subjective maps, Ghisyawan teases out Trinidadian women’s articulations of identity, passion, friendship, and family, as well as how they resist homophobia and find spaces of safety and belonging. It is a finely crafted study that is theoretically and methodologically rich, clearly produced with much care and respect. A vital text in Queer, Caribbean and decolonial studies.\" -- Kamala Kempadoo * author of Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered: New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Hu *\u003cbr\u003e\"Ghisyawan makes an outstanding contribution to Caribbean knowledge production in this profound and insightful study of Caribbean sexuality and same-sex desire. Through a much-needed focus on same-sex-loving women and space-making practices, she offers a unique decolonial methodology through subjective mapping and intersectional feminist praxis that demonstrates complex understandings of safety, visibility, place, identity, and queerness. \u003ci\u003eErotic Cartographies \u003c\/i\u003elocates and affirms queer Caribbean belonging and spaces by examining lived experiences, creativity, spirituality, and erotic subjectivities that are fiercely and powerfully defiant.\" -- Angelique V. Nixon * author of Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture *\u003cbr\u003e\"For Ghisyawan, the erotic is a kind of self-knowing that allows us to reshape space into safe havens, shifting and eliminating the boundaries of what it means to transgress, while also intuiting unsafe spaces and knowing the kinds of performances that become necessary around the potential hostilities of family members, friends, coworkers, and strangers. Ultimately, \u003ci\u003eErotic Cartographies\u003c\/i\u003e challenges us to consider the role the erotic plays in our lives as what moves us toward decolonial spaces that are more than just safe enough. By allowing ourselves to inhabit our erotic selves more fully, we also allow ourselves to map the world anew.\" -- Jessica Díaz Rodríguez * Sx Salon *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003eNote on Trinidadian Language\u003cbr\u003ePrologue\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Introduction and Methodology\u003cbr\u003e1 Introduction: Erotic Cartographies and the Decolonial\u003cbr\u003e2 Subjective Mapping: Queer Decolonial Methodology\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Confronting Binaries: Space, Gender, and Social Class\u003cbr\u003e3 Being in Public: Queer Transnational Subjectivities\u003cbr\u003e4 Contesting “Home”: Unsettling Public-Private Boundaries\u003cbr\u003ePart III: State, Religion, and Personhood\u003cbr\u003e5 Religious Nationalism: Its Roots and Fruit\u003cbr\u003e6 “Dealing Up with the Spirit”: Spiritual Knowledge and Erotic Fulfillment\u003cbr\u003e7 Conclusion\u003cbr\u003eAppendix 1. Analytics Used for Maps\u003cbr\u003eAppendix 2. Bio-Data of Research Participants\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043451765079,"sku":"9781978821378","price":107.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781978821378.jpg?v=1750958282","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/erotic-cartographies-decolonization-and-the-queer-caribbean-imagination-9781978821378","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}