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Attai, Nikoli A.

 
9781978830363: Defiant Bodies: Making Queer Community in the Anglophone Caribbean
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 197883036X ISBN 13 : 9781978830363
Editeur : Rutgers University Press, 2023

Synopsis

In the Anglophone Caribbean, international queer human rights activists strategically located within and outside of the region have dominated interventions seeking to address issues affecting people across the region; a trend that is premised on an idea that the Caribbean is extremely homophobic and transphobic, resulting in violence and death for people who defy dominant sexual and gender boundaries. Human rights activists continue to utilize international financial and political resources to influence these interventions and the region's engagement on issues of homophobia, transphobia, discrimination, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This focus, however, elides the deeply complex nature of queerness across different spaces and places, and fails to fully account for the nuances of queer sexual and gender politics and community making across the Caribbean. Defiant Bodies: Making Queer Community in the Anglophone Caribbean problematizes the neocolonial and homoimperial nature of queer human rights activism in in four Anglophone Caribbean nations -- Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago -- and thinks critically about the limits of human rights as a tool for seeking queer liberation. It also offers critical insight into the ways that queer people negotiate, resist, and disrupt homophobia, transphobia, and discrimination by mobilizing "on the ground" and creating transgressive communities within the region.

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À propos de l'auteur

NIKOLI A. ATTAI is an assistant professor of ethnic studies at Colorado State University.

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Éditeur
Rutgers University Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
197883036X
ISBN 13 
9781978830363
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
212
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