Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles (Paperback)

by Thomas Glave (Editor, Contributor), José AlcántaraAlmánzar (Contributor), Aldo Alvarez (Contributor), Reinaldo Arenas (Contributor), Rane Arroyo (Contributor), Jesús Barquet (Contributor), Marilyn Bobes (Contributor), Dionne Brand (Contributor), Timothy Chin (Contributor), Michelle Cliff (Contributor), Wesley E. A.Crichlow (Contributor), Mabel Rodriguez-Cuesta (Contributor), Ochy Curiel (Contributor), Faizal Deen (Contributor), Pero de Jesús (Contributor)
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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly
This sometimes sexy, sometimes dry, but often lush collection of stories by Caribbean gay and lesbian writers is a mixed bag. Certain selections, such as Wesley E.A. Crichlow's History, (Re)Memory, Testimony, and Biomythography and Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes's heavily footnoted Postdata: metatextual wings of a dove will likely put off all but academics. More accessible are Michelle Cliff's Ecce Homo, a tale of star-crossed male lovers in Rome during WWII, which has the romantic distance of a sepia photograph, and José Alcántara Almánzar's portrayal of a transvestite in Lulú or the Metamorphosis. Many of the writings from the 1990s tackle oppression and are tragic in tone. Shani Mootoo's sassy patois story, Out on Main Street, about how she and her girlfriend negotiate their sexuality in a sweet shop, is refreshingly upbeat, and Audre Lorde's two stories, one about rebuilding in St. Croix after hurricane Hugo, the other a meditation on home and her mother's nostalgia for Grenada—neither of which addresses sexuality—widen the book's somewhat claustrophobic focus. (June)
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"Our Caribbean is a superb anthology. Thomas Glave does not exaggerate when he writes that this is 'a book that I and others have been waiting for and have wanted for all our lives.' Here we have a book that makes literal the ongoing necessity to write 'against silence.'" Elizabeth Alexander, author of American Blue: Selected Poems "Traversing boundaries of geography, history, language, and desire, Thomas Glave has assembled a poignant testament of how we dare to love differently and yearn for justice in the same breath... Necessary and timely."--M. Jacqui Alexander, author of Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred

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Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Duke University Press (June 30, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 082234226X
• ISBN-13: 978-0822342267
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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