In most Caribbean countries homosexuality is still illegal and many outside of the region are unaware of how difficult life can be for gay men and lesbians. This book collects interviews with queer Caribbean writers, activists, and citizens and challenges the dominance of Euro-American theories in understanding global queerness.
Format: Hardback
CONTRIBUTORS: K. Campbell
EAN: 9781137364838
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 3796 g
HEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan
DATE PUBLISHED: 2014-02-05
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GENRE: HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
WIDTH: 140 cm
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Book Themes:
Caribbean islands, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics
Kofi Campbell is Associate Professor of English, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts, and a member of the graduate program in Cultural Analysis and Social Theory at Laurier Brantford University, Canada. He is the author of Literature and Culture in the Black Atlantic: From Pre- to Postcolonial and has published several articles on postcolonial and medieval literatures.
