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.

Caribbean Area.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 pages) ; maps

Edition:

1st ed.

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:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Note on Trinidadian English

Prologue

PART I INTRODUCTION AND METHODOLOGY

1 Introduction

2 Subjective Mapping

PART 2 CONFRONTING BINARIES

3 Being in Public

4 Contesting "Home"

PART III STATE, RELIGION, AND PERSONHOOD

5 Religious Nationalism

6 "Dealing Up with the Spirit"

7 Conclusion

Appendix 1: Analytics Used for Maps

Appendix 2: Bio-Data of Research Participants

Acknowledgments

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Description based upon print version of record.

Other Format:

Print version: Ghisyawan, Krystal Nandini Erotic Cartographies

ISBN:

9781978821385

1978821387

9781978821408

1978821409

OCLC:

1295278410