{"id":18009,"date":"2013-07-05T07:08:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T07:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/?p=18009"},"modified":"2013-07-05T07:08:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T07:08:32","slug":"our-caribbean-by-thomas-glave-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/our-caribbean-by-thomas-glave-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Caribbean by Thomas Glave"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Our Caribbean<\/em><\/h2>\n

A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles<\/em><\/h3>\n

Thomas Glave<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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‘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’<\/p>\n

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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 along with selections by internationally celebrated figures such as Reinaldo Arenas, Audre Lorde, Achy Obejas, Assotto Saint, Jos\u00e9 Alc\u00e1ntara Alm\u00e1nzar, Michelle Cliff, and Dionne Brand. 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. Contributors Jos\u00e9 Alc\u00e1ntara Alm\u00e1nzar Aldo Alvarez Reinaldo Arenas Rane Arroyo Jes\u00fas J. Barquet Marilyn Bobes Dionne Brand Timothy S. Chin Michelle Cliff Wesley E. A. Crichlow Mabel Rodr\u00edguez Cuesta Ochy Curiel Faizal Deen Pedro de Jes\u00fas R. Erica Doyle Thomas Glave Rosamond S. King Helen Klonaris Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes Audre Lorde Shani Mootoo Anton Nimblett Achy Obejas Leonardo Padura Fuentes Virgilio Pi\u00f1era Patricia Powell Kevin Everod Quashie Juanita Ramos Colin Robinson Assotto Saint Andrew Salkey Lawrence Scott Makeda Silvera H. Nigel Thomas Rinaldo Walcott Gloria Wekker Lawson Williams<\/p><\/div>\n

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