The Queer Caribbean Speaks: Interviews with Writers, Artists, and Activists [Hardcover]

In most Caribbean countries homosexuality is still illegal and many outside of the region are unaware of how difficult life can be for gay men and lesbians. This book collects interviews with queer Caribbean writers, activists, and citizens and challenges the dominance of Euro-American theories in understanding global queerness.1. H. Nigel Thomas 2. Thomas Glave 3. Faizal Deen 4. Korey Anthony Chisholm 5. Patricia Powell (1) 6. Patricia Powell (2) 7. Helen Klonaris 8. Shani Mootoo 9. Mista Majah P 10. Rosamond S. King 11. Nalo Hopkinson 12. Erin Greene 13. Joel Simpson 14. Ryon Rawlins

The Queer Caribbean Speaks: Interviews with Writers, Artists, and Activists & offer a comprehensive, interdisciplinary perspective on the representations and behind-the-scenes motivations of contemporary Pan-Caribbean cultural workers. & The Queer Caribbean Speaks is a valuable addition to queer Caribbean studies. & offer a deep understanding of the sociohistorical realities of the Caribbean, with detailed accounts of colonial and recent histories, legal codes, the effects of tourism, and pop culture phenomena. (Patricia K. DeRocher, SX Salon_smallaxe.net, February, 2016)

The rich reflections and testimonies of experience recorded in this book break the silence about queer Caribbean lifeworlds, imagined and configured through the confluence of local, national, regional, and transnational processes. The collection compels us to meaningfully reconceptualize both Caribbeanness and queerness as categories of meaning that articulate and unravel each other. As such, this book holds many possibilities for engaging what might be considered the queer turn in Caribbean Studies and for productively troubling the conceptual limits of 'Q'ueer Studies. - Amar Wahab, Assistant Professor in Gender and Sexuality, York University, Canada

This timely collection of 14 interviews offers further momentum to current commitments to expand the horizon of possl¶