| Sex and the Citizen is a multidisciplinary collection ofessays that draws on current anxieties about",legitimate", sexual identities and practicesacross the Caribbean to explore both the impact of globalization and the legacy of theregion's history of sexual exploitation during colonialism, slavery, and indentureship. Speaking from within but also challenging the assumptions of feminism, literary and culturalstudies, and queer studies, this volume questions prevailing oppositions between the backward,homophobic nation-state and the laid-back, service-with-a-smile paradise orbetween giving in ignominiously to the autocratic demands of the global north and equatingpostcolonial sovereignty with a",wholesome", heterosexual citizenry.Thecontributors use parliamentary legislation, novels, film, and other texts to examineMartinique's relationship to France, the diasporic relationships between the DominicanRepublic and New York City, between India and Trinidad, and between Mexico's capital city andits Caribbean coast,",indigenous", names for sexual practices and desires in Suriname andthe Eastern Caribbean, and other topics. This volume will appeal to readers interested in how sexhas become an important register for considerations of citizenship, personal and political autonomy,and identity in the Caribbean and the global south.Contributors: Vanessa Agard-Jones * Odile Cazenave * Michelle Cliff* Susan Dayal * Alison Donnell * Donette Francis * Carmen Gillespie* Rosamond S. King * Antonia MacDonald-Smythe * Tejaswini Niranjana * Evelyn O'Callaghan* Tracy Robinson * Patricia Saunders * Yasmin Tambiah * Omise'eke NatashaTinsley * Rinaldo Walcott * M. S. Worrell |
