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The first book of its kind, Our Caribbean is an anthology of lesbian and gay writing from across the Antilles. The author and activist Thomas Glave has gathered outstanding fiction, nonfiction, memoir, and poetry by little-known writers together with selections by internationally celebrated figures such as José Alcántara Almánzar, Reinaldo Arenas, Dionne Brand, Michelle Cliff, Audre Lorde, Achy Obejas, and Assotto Saint. The result is an unprecedented literary conversation on gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered experiences throughout the Caribbean and its far-flung diaspora. Many selections were originally published in Spanish, Dutch, or creole languages; some are translated into English here for the first time. The thirty-seven authors hail from the Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Panama, Puerto Rico, St. Vincent, St. Kitts, Suriname, and Trinidad. Many have lived outside the Caribbean, and their writing depicts histories of voluntary migration as well as exile from repressive governments, communities, and families. Many pieces have a political urgency that reflects their authors’ work as activists, teachers, community organizers, and performers. Desire commingles with ostracism and alienation throughout: in the evocative portrayals of same-sex love and longing, and in the selections addressing religion, family, race, and class. From the poem “Saturday Night in San Juan with the Right Sailors” to the poignant narrative “We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?” to an eloquent call for the embrace of difference that appeared in the Nassau Daily Tribune on the eve of an anti-gay protest, Our Caribbean is a brave and necessary book.

English literature --- Caribbean literature (English) --- Caribbean literature --- Gays' writings, Caribbean. --- Homosexuality --- HOMOSEXUALITE --- HOMOSEXUALITE ET LITTERATURE --- Littérature antillaise de langue anglaise --- DANS LA LITTERATURE --- REGION CARAÏBE --- 20e siècle --- Histoire et critique

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The field of African literary and cultural studies is undergoing significant transformations, in tandem with changes in related academic disciplines and throughout the world at large. The theme of this volume, “African Diasporas: Ancestors, Migrations and Boundaries,” at once encourages further exploration of issues that have long been central in scholarship on literature and orature while at the same time forging new ways of conceiving the relationship between African cultures of the past and the present, and their ongoing reconfiguration in a range of diasporic communities that are continually reinventing themselves. Ours is an age of unprecedented migration not only of labor and commodities but also of peoples—peoples whose innovative cultural activities mediate dislocations, at best making them not only bearable but productive and sometimes even enjoyable. Scholarship draws on recent developments in cultural studies in order to analyze the potent social forces that are harnessed and given unique expression in literature and popular culture. As Africans and people of African descent relocate—whether literally or figuratively, voluntarily or by force—they generate new modes of expression that underscore the tangle of contradictions in their national and cultural identities, while also proposing new forms of identification that mesh with their new situation. Taken together, these essays suggest many new lines of inquiry to be pursued in future work, which will have to address the inequalities perpetuated or spawned by economic globalization, and the ways in which various modes of cultural expression do or do not rise to the task of challenging those inequalities.

DIASPORA AFRICAINE --- LITTERATURE AFRICAINE --- Littérature américaine --- LITTERATURE ANTILLAISE = CARIBBEAN LITERATURE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- Auteurs noirs américains --- Histoire et critique

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At the point in time when the abolition of slavery was being celebrated, another system of servitude was underway: indentureship. Indenture labor resulted in the transportation of one million Indians - called coolies - into British and French colonies. Unable or unwilling to return, a great majority of them stayed in the countries they had been shipped to and participated in the creation of new, creole cultures. This book offers a close reading of literary works in French and in English by women writers whose ancestors originally came to the Caribbean or across the Indian Ocean as indentured laborers. Positing a dynamic and open approach, the author adopts the concept of coolitude to examine how their works capture, on the one hand, the Indian element of the creolization process and, on the other hand, the creolization of the Indian diasporic inheritance. Organized around the paradigm of the crossing - historical, geographical, gender-based, corporeal, identitary - this study offers insightful transoceanic, transregional and transcolonial dialogues between Caribbean and Indian Ocean literatures. Focusing on themes of displacement, entrapment, metamorphosis and marginalization, the author explores the entanglements and tensions that characterize creole pluricultural landscapes while she underscores Caribbean and Mauritian literature's engagement with alterity.

Imperialism in literature --- Imperialisme in de literatuur --- Impérialisme dans la littérature --- Caribbean literature --- History and criticism --- Indian Ocean Region --- Literatures --- 20th century --- Caribbean literature - 20th century - History and criticism --- Indian Ocean Region - Literatures - History and criticism --- Littérature caribéenne --- Littérature antillaise de langue anglaise --- Impérialisme --- Indien, Océan (région) --- 20e siècle --- Histoire et critique --- Dans la littérature --- Littératures

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The trans-Atlantic slave trade and the concomitant enslavement of Africans created an enduring connection between Africa and the scattered communities of peoples of African origins in the Americas and elsewhere. These tragic events of slavery have profoundly influenced the literary imagination, whether in Africa, Europe or the Americas. The authors in this collection explore the ways in which trans-Atlantic constructions of this historical experience find expression in the literary mode. The essays examine the ways that writers and performers have used a variety of literary traditions, including narrative, poetry, myth, legend, autobiography, and drama, as well as song and the cinema, to engage in the construction of imagined yet realistic perceptions of Africa through literary representation.

African diaspora in art --- African diaspora in literature --- African literature (English) --- American literature --- Caribbean literature (English) --- Slavery in art --- Slavery in literature --- Slave trade in literature --- Slavery and slaves in literature --- Slaves in literature --- English literature --- Caribbean literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Black authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- African American authors&delete& --- African authors --- Africa --- In literature. --- Conferences - Meetings --- Black authors --- African American authors --- Enslaved persons in literature --- LITTERATURE AFRICAINE DE LANGUE ANGLAISE --- LITTERATURE ANTILLAISE DE LANGUE ANGLAISE --- Littérature américaine --- DIASPORA AFRICAINE --- DIASPORA --- AFRICAINS --- Esclavage --- AFRIQUE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- TRAITE DES ESCLAVES --- AUTEURS NOIRS --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- Auteurs noirs américains --- Histoire et critique --- DANS LA LITTERATURE --- A L'ETRANGER --- Dans la littérature --- DANS L'ART

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Metaphor. --- Cannibalism in literature. --- Race relations in literature. --- Democracy in literature. --- American literature --- Brazilian literature --- Caribbean literature --- Métaphore --- Cannibalisme dans la littérature --- Relations raciales dans la littérature --- Démocratie dans la littérature --- Littérature américaine --- Littérature brésilienne --- Littérature antillaise --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Auteurs noirs américains --- Histoire et critique --- United States --- Brazil --- Caribbean Area --- Etats-Unis --- Brésil --- Caraïbes (Région) --- Race relations --- Historiography. --- Relations raciales --- Historiographie