Words to our now : imagination and dissent / Thomas Glave.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glave, Thomas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prejudices.

Minorities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minn. ; London : University of Minnesota Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Essays regarding prejudice and inhumanity, by a gay Jamaican American.

Contents:

Contents; Baychester: A Memory; Toward a Nobility of the Imagination: Jamaica's Shame (An Open Letter to the People of Jamaica); (Re-)Recalling Essex Hemphill: Words to Our Now; Fire and Ink: Toward a Quest for Language, History, and a Moral Imagination; Whose Caribbean? An Allegory, in Part; These Blocks, Not Square (Five Movements); The Death and Light of Brian Williamson; Regarding Carolivia Herron's Thereafter Johnnie, So Long Swept Aside: Why?; Between Jamaica(n) and (North) America(n): Convergent (Divergent) Territories

On the Difficulty of Confiding, with Complete Love and Trust, in Some Heterosexual ""Friends""Panic, Despair: When the Words Do Not Come (But Then an Unexpected Journey); Regarding a Black Male Monica Lewinsky, Anal Penetration, and Bill Clinton's Sacred White Anus; On the Importance of Returning from Abroad to the United States in a Time of Imperialism and War (A Meditation on Dissent); Autumn's Relentlessness: Crimes against Humanity; Re-membering Steen Fenrich: Not a Candidate for Matthew Shepardhood; Abu Ghraib: Fragments against Forgetting; Again, the Sea; Acknowledgments; Notes

Publication History

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-8166-9783-3

OCLC:

476095938