Erotic cartographies : decolonization and the queer Caribbean imagination / Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ghisyawan, Krystal Nandini, author.

Series:

Critical Caribbean studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lesbians--Caribbean Area--Social conditions.

Lesbians.

Gay people--Caribbean Area--Social conditions.

Gay people.

Lesbians--Identity.

Women--Identity.

Women.

Women--Sexual behavior--Caribbean Area.

Gays--Social conditions.

Lesbians--Social conditions.

Women--Sexual behavior.

Social conditions.

Caribbean Area.

Physical Description:

xii, 252 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Erotic Cartographies 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. Erotic Cartographies 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I INTRODUCTION AND METHODOLOGY

1. Introduction: Erotic Cartographies and the Decolonial

2. Subjective Mapping: Queer Decolonial Methodology

pt. II CONFRONTING BINARIES: SPACE, GENDER, AND SOCIAL CLASS

3. Being in Public: Queer Transnational Subjectivities

4. Contesting "Home": Unsettling Public-Private Boundaries

pt. III STATE, RELIGION, AND PERSONHOOD

5. Religious Nationalism: Its Roots and Fruit

6. "Dealing Up with the Spirit": Spiritual Knowledge and Erotic Fulfillment

7. Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781978821361

1978821360

9781978821378

1978821379

OCLC:

1245472465

Publisher Number:

99989674790