Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan

Erotic Cartographies

Decolonization and the Queer Caribbean Imagination

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Erotic Cartographies uses maps drawn by Trinidadian same-sex-loving women to demonstrate how their gender performance, erotic autonomy, and space-making practices contest their invisibility and exclusion from discourses of belonging, and challenge colonial discourses and practices related to gender, knowledge, and power in Trinidadian society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781978821361
• ISBN-10: 1978821360
• Artikelnr.: 61490735

Autorenporträt

KRYSTAL NANDINI GHISYAWAN is an independent Indo-Trinidadian queer scholar, educator, and activist currently living in Lawrenceville, Georgia.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Note on Trinidadian Language
Prologue
Part I: Introduction and Methodology
1 Introduction: Erotic Cartographies and the Decolonial
2 Subjective Mapping: Queer Decolonial Methodology
Part II: Confronting Binaries: Space, Gender, and Social Class
3 Being in Public: Queer Transnational Subjectivities
4 Contesting “Home”: Unsettling Public-Private Boundaries
Part 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
Appendix 1. Analytics Used for Maps
Appendix 2. Bio-Data of Research Participants
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index