Erotic cartographies : decolonization and the queer Caribbean imagination /

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Author / Creator:Ghisyawan, Krystal Nandini, author.
Imprint:New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2022]
Description:xii, 252 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Critical Caribbean studies
Critical Caribbean studies.
Subject:Lesbians -- Caribbean Area -- Social conditions.
Gays -- Caribbean Area -- Social conditions.
Lesbians -- Identity.
Women -- Identity.
Women -- Sexual behavior -- Caribbean Area.
Gays -- Social conditions.
Lesbians -- Identity.
Lesbians -- Social conditions.
Women -- Identity.
Women -- Sexual behavior.
Caribbean Area.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12705335
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ISBN:9781978821361
1978821360
9781978821378
1978821379
9781978821385
9781978821392
9781978821408
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"Erotic Cartographies uses subjective mapping, a participatory data collection technique, to demonstrate how Trinidadian same-sex-loving women use their gender performance, erotic autonomy, and space-making practices to reinforce and resist colonial ascriptions on subject bodies. The women strategically embody their sexual identities to challenge imposed subject categories and to contest their invisibility and exclusion from discourses of belonging. Erotic Cartographies refers to the processes of mapping territories of self-knowing and self-expression, both cognitively in the imagination and on paper during the mapping exercise, exploring how meaning is given to space, and how it is transformed. Using the women's quotes and maps, the book focuses on the false binary of public-private, the practices of home and family, and religious nationalism and spiritual self-seeking, to demonstrate the women's challenges to the structural, symbolic, and interpersonal violence of colonial discourses and practices related to gender, knowledge, and power in Trinidadian society"--