Sex and the citizen
Subtitle: interrogating the Caribbean
By: edited by Faith Smith
Series: New World studies; New World studies
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780813931128; 9780813931135; 9780813931326
Subjects: Caribbean fiction; Gender identity; History and criticism; Sex role in literature; Identity (Psychology)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-284) and index.
Table of contents: title: Buyers beware, "hoodwinking" on the rise: epistemologies of consumption in Terry McMillan's Caribbean / Patricia Saunders; title: "Nobody ent billing me": a U.S./Caribbean intertextual, intercultural call-and-response / Carmen Gillespie; title: Novel insights: sex work, secrets, and depression in Angie Cruz's Soledad / Donette Francis; title: Against the rules of blackness: Hilton Als's The women and Jamaica Kincaid's My brother (or how to raise black queer kids) / Rinaldo Walcott; title: Francophone Caribbean women writers: rethinking identity, sexuality, and citizenship / Odile Cazenave; title: Indian nationalism and female sexuality: a Trinidadian tale / Tejaswini Niranjana; title: Caribbean migrations: negotiating borders / Evelyn O'Callaghan; title: Reflections on she web / Susan Dayal; title: Threatening sexual (mis)behavior: homosexuality in the penal code debates in Trinidad and Tobago, 1986 / Yasmin Tambiah; title: Sexual awakenings and malignant fictions of masculinity in Alfonso Cuáron's Y tu mamá también / M.S. Worrell; title: Living and loving: emancipating the Caribbean queer citizen in Shani Mootoo's Cereus blooms at night / Alison Donnell; title: Le jeu de qui? Sexual politics at play in the French Caribbean / Vanessa Agard-Jones; title: Our imagined lives / Tracy Robinson; title: New citizens, new sexualities: nineteenth-century Jamettes / Rosamond S. King; title: Macocotte: an exploration of same-sex friendship in selected Caribbean novels / Antonia MacDonald-Smythe; title: What is a Uma? Women performing gender and sexuality in Paramaribo, Suriname / Omise'eke  Natasha Tinsley; title: Colonial girl: and what would it be like / Michelle Cliff.