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Beyond Homophobia

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Anglophone Caribbean sexuality
Caribbean LGBTQ+
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Homophobia in the Caribbean
LGBTQ Caribbean literature
LGBTQ rights in Jamaica
Postcolonial gender studies
Queer activism Caribbean
Queer Caribbean Studies
Queer identity Caribbean
Sexuality and gender Caribbean

Product details

  • ISBN 9789766407445
  • Weight: 378g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
  • Publication Date: 11 Jun 2020
  • Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
  • Publication City/Country: JM
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Beyond Homophobia: Centring LGBTQ Experiences in the Anglophone Caribbean aims to disrupt the conventional rendering of the Caribbean as uniquely and deeply homophobic by focusing on the experiences and agency of LGBTQ people in the region.

Presenting a wide range of perspectives and approaches, this book grew out of presentations at two groundbreaking events on the Jamaican campus of the University of the West Indies: a symposium discussing LGBTQ experiences and research in Jamaica, and a conference that expanded the focus to provide a regional scope. Activists, artists and academics came together to challenge and change the narratives about LGBTQ issues in the Caribbean, exploring sexualities, gender identities and queer practices beyond the discourse of violence, as well as the stereotypes, assumptions and limitations presented by conventional norms around gender and sexuality.

Beyond Homophobia combines a variety of academic disciplines with poetry and prose. Its contributions move from cyberspace to the dancehall, from literary analysis to ethnographic research, from pedagogical to methodological concerns, and from thoughts on the past to ideas about the future. The collection presents a range of perspectives on and techniques with which to interrogate notions of identity, sexualities, victimhood, agency, activism, fluidity, fixity, visibility, invisibility, class, homophobia, coming out, belonging and spirituality.

By illuminating the lives, experiences, and research of and about the queer anglophone Caribbean, this volume represents a concerted attempt to move Beyond Homophobia.
About
Moji Anderson is Senior Lecturer, the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. She is co-founder of Beyond Homophobia.

Erin MacLeod teaches at Vanier College, Montreal, Canada. Her publications include Visions of Zion: Ethiopians and Rastafari in the Search for the Promised Land and (co-edited with Jahlani Niaah) Let Us Start with Africa: Foundations of Rastafari Scholarship.