Sex and the citizen : interrogating the Caribbean /

Sex and the citizen : interrogating the Caribbean /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
Description:	1 online resource (vii, 292 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	New World studies New World studies.
Subject:	Caribbean fiction -- History and criticism. Gender identity -- Caribbean Area. Identity (Psychology) -- Caribbean Area. Sex role in literature. Caribbean fiction. Gender identity. Identity (Psychology) Sex role in literature. Caribbean Area. Electronic book. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11279375

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Other authors / contributors:	Smith, Faith, 1964- editor.
ISBN:	9780813931326 0813931320 9780813931128 0813931126 9780813931135 0813931134 0813931126 9780813931128 1280490241 9781280490248 9786613585479 6613585475
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-284) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	Sex and the Citizen is a multidisciplinary collection of essays that draws on current anxieties about "legitimate" sexual identities and practices across the Caribbean to explore both the impact of globalization and the legacy of the region's history of sexual exploitation during colonialism, slavery, and indentureship. Speaking from within but also challenging the assumptions of feminism, literary and cultural studies, and queer studies, this volume questions prevailing oppositions between the backward, homophobic nation-state and the laid-back, service-with-a-smile paradise or between giving in ignominiously to the autocratic demands of the global north and equating postcolonial sovereignty with a "wholesome" heterosexual citizenry. The contributors use parliamentary legislation, novels, film, and other texts to examine Martinique's relationship to France; the diasporic relationships between the Dominican Republic and New York City, between India and Trinidad, and between Mexico's capital city and its Caribbean coast; "indigenous" names for sexual practices and desires in Suriname and the Eastern Caribbean; and other topics. This volume will appeal to readers interested in how sex has become an important register for considerations of citizenship, personal and political autonomy, and identity in the Caribbean and the global south. Contributors: Vanessa Agard-Jones * Odile Cazenave * Michelle Cliff * Susan Dayal * Alison Donnell * Donette Francis * Carmen Gillespie* Rosamond S. King * Antonia MacDonald-Smythe * Tejaswini Niranjana * Evelyn O'Callaghan * Tracy Robinson * Patricia Saunders * Yasmin Tambiah * Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley * Rinaldo Walcott * M.S. Worrell.
Other form:	Print version: Sex and the citizen. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011 9780813931128
Standard no.:	9780813931128

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Summary:	Sex and the Citizen is a multidisciplinary collection of essays that draws on current anxieties about "legitimate" sexual identities and practices across the Caribbean to explore both the impact of globalization and the legacy of the region's history of sexual exploitation during colonialism, slavery, and indentureship. Speaking from within but also challenging the assumptions of feminism, literary and cultural studies, and queer studies, this volume questions prevailing oppositions between the backward, homophobic nation-state and the laid-back, service-with-a-smile paradise or between giving in ignominiously to the autocratic demands of the global north and equating postcolonial sovereignty with a "wholesome" heterosexual citizenry. The contributors use parliamentary legislation, novels, film, and other texts to examine Martinique's relationship to France; the diasporic relationships between the Dominican Republic and New York City, between India and Trinidad, and between Mexico's capital city and its Caribbean coast; "indigenous" names for sexual practices and desires in Suriname and the Eastern Caribbean; and other topics. This volume will appeal to readers interested in how sex has become an important register for considerations of citizenship, personal and political autonomy, and identity in the Caribbean and the global south. Contributors : Vanessa Agard-Jones * Odile Cazenave * Michelle Cliff * Susan Dayal * Alison Donnell * Donette Francis * Carmen Gillespie* Rosamond S. King * Antonia MacDonald-Smythe * Tejaswini Niranjana * Evelyn O'Callaghan * Tracy Robinson * Patricia Saunders * Yasmin Tambiah * Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley * Rinaldo Walcott * M. S. Worrell
Physical Description:	1 online resource (vii, 292 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-284) and index.
ISBN:	9780813931326 0813931320 9780813931128 0813931126 9780813931135 0813931134 1280490241 9781280490248 9786613585479 6613585475