Erotic Cartographies: Decolonization and the Queer Caribbean Imagination

by Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978821379
• ISBN13: 9781978821378
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 276 Pages