{"product_id":"our-caribbean-9780822342267","title":"Our Caribbean","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first anthology of lesbian and gay writing from the Caribbean.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With excerpts from the work of luminaries like Audre Lorde, Reinaldo Arenas, Michelle Cliff, Assotto Saint, Achy Obejas, and Aldo Alvarez, there's no question this anthology has serious literary heft, beyond its import as a first-of-a-kind collection. But it's the lesser-known (and, in some cases, never-before translated) contributors who add value. . . . everal contributions are emphatically academic, footnotes and all, but these provide ballast for Glave's authentic, eclectic collection.” - \u003cb\u003eRichard Labonte\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Glave has given us a valuable record of the real beauty and brutality that lurks behind the travel posters.” - \u003cb\u003eHarry E. Baldwin\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFrontiers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eOur Caribbean\u003c\/i\u003e will likely become a classic compilation and a must-read for anyone who wants to learn more about what it means to be from the Antilles region of the world and to find a home in the LGBT community.” - \u003cb\u003eRachel Pepper\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCurve\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“You need to take time with this collection. It is a delicious gathering of voices, all different, but with interweaving themes. You cannot rush this experience. From the luscious, sexy racy prose to the cutting edge politics, every line has shape and depth and plays upon you long after the reading. This book will rock you, rock within you, like \u003ci\u003eThis Bridge Called My Back\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Cherie Moraga, did in the 1970’s”. - \u003cb\u003eCathie Koa Dunsford\u003c\/b\u003e, Asia and Pacific Writers Network\u003cbr\u003e“[An] important and amazing collection. . . . All of the essays, fiction, and poems in this collection impress, and with this text, Glave has created a very important addition to the growing shelf of international GLBT literature.” - Michael G. Cornelius, \u003ci\u003eBloomsbury Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“You don’t have to be gay, lesbian, or Caribbean . . . to appreciate this anthology, though it is certainly a seminal contribution to the fields of Caribbean literature and gay and lesbian studies. Most of its contents are worth reading for the drama, sensitivity, and complexity required of such identities.” - Emily Raboteau, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eOur Caribbean\u003c\/i\u003e is a superb anthology. Thomas Glave does not exaggerate when he writes that this is ‘a book that I and others have been waiting for and have wanted for all our lives.’ Here we have a book that makes literal the ongoing necessity to write ‘against silence.’”—\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Alexander\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Blue: Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Traversing boundaries of geography, history, language, and desire, Thomas Glave has assembled a poignant testament of how we dare to love differently and yearn for justice in the same breath...Necessary and timely.”—\u003cb\u003eM. Jacqui Alexander\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003ePedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eOur Caribbean\u003c\/i\u003e will likely become a classic compilation and a must-read for anyone who wants to learn more about what it means to be from the Antilles region of the world and to find a home in the LGBT community.” -- Rachel Pepper * Curve *\u003cbr\u003e“[An] important and amazing collection. . . . All of the essays, fiction, and poems in this collection impress, and with this text, Glave has created a very important addition to the growing shelf of international GLBT literature.” -- Michael G. Cornelius * Bloomsbury Review *\u003cbr\u003e“Glave has given us a valuable record of the real beauty and brutality that lurks behind the travel posters.” -- Harry E. Baldwin * Frontiers *\u003cbr\u003e“With excerpts from the work of luminaries like Audre Lorde, Reinaldo Arenas, Michelle Cliff, Assotto Saint, Achy Obejas, and Aldo Alvarez, there's no question this anthology has serious literary heft, beyond its import as a first-of-a-kind collection. But it's the lesser-known (and, in some cases, never-before translated) contributors who add value. . . . everal contributions are emphatically academic, footnotes and all, but these provide ballast for Glave's authentic, eclectic collection.” -- Richard Labonte\u003cbr\u003e“You don’t have to be gay, lesbian, or Caribbean . . . to appreciate this anthology, though it is certainly a seminal contribution to the fields of Caribbean literature and gay and lesbian studies. Most of its contents are worth reading for the drama, sensitivity, and complexity required of such identities.” -- Emily Raboteau * American Book Review *\u003cbr\u003e“You need to take time with this collection. It is a delicious gathering of voices, all different, but with interweaving themes. You cannot rush this experience. From the luscious, sexy racy prose to the cutting edge politics, every line has shape and depth and plays upon you long after the reading. This book will rock you, rock within you, like \u003ci\u003eThis Bridge Called My Back\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Cherie Moraga, did in the 1970’s”. -- Cathie Koa Dunsford * Asia and Pacific Writers Network *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Desire through the Archipelago \/ Thomas Glave 1\u003cbr\u003e Lulú or the Metamorphosis (1995) \/ José Alcántara Almánzar, Dominican Republic 13\u003cbr\u003e Property Values (2001) \/ Aldo Alvarez, Puerto Rico 21\u003cbr\u003e Eroticism (1992) \/ Reinaldo Arenas, Cuba 34\u003cbr\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e Three Poems: Transactions (2001), San Francisco - New Orleans (2001), The Image Saves (1994) \/ Jesús J. Barquet, Cuba 53\u003cbr\u003e Somebody Has to Cry (1998) \/ Marilyn Bobes, Cuba 57\u003cbr\u003e Elizere, Beckoned (1996) \/ Dionne Brand, Trinidad 70\u003cbr\u003e \"Bullers\" and \"Battymen\": Contesting Homophobia in Black Popular Culture and Contemporary Caribbean Literature (1997) \/ Timothy S. Chin, Jamaica 78\u003cbr\u003e Ecce Homo (2002) \/ Michelle Cliff, Jamaica 97\u003cbr\u003e History, (Re)Memory, Testimony, and Biomythography: Charting a Buller Man's Trinidadian Past (2004) \/ Wesley E. A. Crichlow, Trinidad 101\u003cbr\u003e Other Islanders on Lesbos: A Retrospective Look at the History of Lesbians in Cuba (2004) \/ Mabel Cuesta, Cuba 132\u003cbr\u003e Autonomy in Lesbian-Feminist Politics (2004) \/ Ochy Curiel, Dominican Republic 142\u003cbr\u003e Three Poems: Young Faggot (2003), The Magical Real (2003), Surrender (2003) \/ Faizal Deen, Guyana\/Trinidad 153\u003cbr\u003e The Portrait (1998) \/ Pero de Jesús, Cuba 158\u003cbr\u003e Tante Merle (1999) \/ R. Erica Doyle, Trinidad\/U.S. 173\u003cbr\u003e Whose Caribbean? An Allegory in Part (2005) \/ Thomas Glave, Jamaica\/U.S. 177\u003cbr\u003e More Notes on the Invisibility of Caribbean Lesbians (2005) \/ Rosamond S. King, Trinidad 191\u003cbr\u003e Independence Day Letter (2004) \/ Helen Klonaris, Babamas 197\u003cbr\u003e De un pájaro las dos alas: Travel Notes of a Queer Puerto Rican in Havana (2002) \/ Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Puerto Rico 202\u003cbr\u003e Of Generators and Survival: Hugo Letter (1990), From Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982) \/ Audre Lorde, Grenada\/Barbados\/U.S. 233\u003cbr\u003e Out on Main Street (1993) \/ Shani Mootoo, Trinidad\/Ireland 252\u003cbr\u003e Time and Tide (2002) \/ Anton Nimblett, Trinidad 261\u003cbr\u003e We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? (1994) \/ Achy Obejas, Cuba 268\u003cbr\u003e The Hunter (1999) \/ Leonardo Padura Fuentes, Cuba 281\u003cbr\u003e The Face (1956) \/ Virgilio Piñera, Cuba 290\u003cbr\u003e Dale and Ian (1994) \/ Patricia Powell, Jamaica 296\u003cbr\u003e Genesis (2003) \/ Kevin Everod Quashie, St. Kitts 304\u003cbr\u003e Bayamón, Brooklyn y yo (1987) \/ Juanita Ramos, Puerto Rico 308\u003cbr\u003e The Mechanic (1998) \/ Colin Robinson, Trinidad 316\u003cbr\u003e Haiti: A Memory Journey (1996) \/ Assotto Saint, Haiti 320\u003cbr\u003e Johnnie, London, 1960 (1960) \/ Andrew Salkey, Jamaica\/Panama 325\u003cbr\u003e I Want to Follow My Friend (1994) \/ Lawrence Scott, Trinidad 336\u003cbr\u003e Man Royals and Sodomites: Some Thoughts on the Invisibility of Afro-Caribbean Lesbians \/ Makeda Silvera, Jamaica 344\u003cbr\u003e Jerome (1993) \/ H. Nigel Thomas, St. Vincent 355\u003cbr\u003e Fragments of Toronto's Black Queer Community: From a Life Still Being Lived (2005) \/ Rinaldo Walcott, Barbados\/Canada 360\u003cbr\u003e Mati-ism and Black Lesbianism:; Two Idealtypical Expressions of Female Homosexuality in Black Communities of the Diaspora (1996) \/ Gloria Wekker, Suriname 368\u003cbr\u003e On Homophobia and Gay Rights Activism in Jamaica (2000) \/ Lawson Williams, Jamaica 382\u003cbr\u003e Glossary 389\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 393","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406051287383,"sku":"9780822342267","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/our-caribbean-9780822342267","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}