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Our Caribbean

A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles

Edited by Thomas Glave



Contributors

José Alcántara Almánzar, Aldo Alvarez, Reinaldo Arenas, Rane Arroyo, Jesús Barquet, Marilyn Bobes, Dionne Brand, Timothy Chin, Michelle Cliff, Wesley E. A. Crichlow, Mabel Rodriguez-Cuesta, Ochy Curiel, Faizal Deen, Pero de Jesús, R. Erica Doyle, Rosamond King, Helen Klonaris, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Audre Lorde, Shani Mootoo, Anton Nimblett, Achy Obejas, Leonardo Padura-Fuentes, Virgilio Piñera, 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



Winner, 2009 Lambda Literary Award (Anthology category)



“[S]uperb for what it does, for what it wants to do, and for what many of its readers hope it inaugurates.”―Kelly Baker Josephs, Caribbean Review of Books



“[T]his anthology is bold and brave - as well as timely and most welcome. It offers more complex and modulated representations of lesbian and gay sexualities than the prevailing focus on homophobia in Caribbean popular cultural forms allows. The 37 writers from across the Caribbean whose work is gathered together here provide diverse, engaging and powerful testimonies of the complicated, painful - and pleasurable - realities of being Caribbean and queer. This anthology needs to be read and responded to because of the merits of the individual contributions but also because its collective significance suggests possibilities not ‘just’ for how lesbian and gay subjects are interpellated within Caribbean discourses, but for how constructions of Caribbean subjectivity more broadly might be unsettled and revisioned.”―Denise Decaires-Narain, Darkmatter



“[I]n gathering the collection around the focus of shared experiences--current and historical, the regionality of the collection makes sense. The majority of the anthology is made up of fairly recent, if not new writing, and some of it is translated into English for the first time. It is an exciting collection for anyone working on the queer postcolonial....”―Shamira A. Meghani, Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory



“While the motivation is to highlight the struggles of the Caribbean LGBT community, the goal of the stories is to impart to the audience a population underserved and undernourished. Here's hoping that these writers will find mainstream success and be able to pen stories with happy endings.”―Peter Piatkowski, Feminist Review blog



“[An] important and amazing collection. . . . All of the essays, fiction, and poems in this collection impress, and with this text, Glave has created a very important addition to the growing shelf of international GLBT literature.”―Michael G. Cornelius, Bloomsbury Review



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, José Alcántara Almánzar, 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.



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Subject: Reminder: Thomas Glave's Public Lecture: "At the Centre of Imagination" - TODAY



INVITATION TO THE BRUNEL CENTRE FOR THE INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF GENDER & SEXUALITY



***FIRST INAUGURAL LECTURE***



'At the Centre of Imagination'

Thomas Glave, University of Cambridge and State University of New York at Binghamton



Wednesday, 10 October 2012

The Council Chamber, Wilfred Brown Building, Brunel University

6.00 pm



ABSTRACT

This lecture, marking the inauguration of Brunel's Gender and Sexuality Research Centre, focuses on the possibilities of intellectual and artistic intersection and collaboration which the Centre's work will enable.  It will take into account the speaker's own interdisciplinary experience as an activist, fiction and non-fiction writer, teacher, and scholar in Caribbean, queer, and African-American studies.



BRIEF BIO

Thomas Glave is a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge in 2012.  He is also a Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Binghamton in the United States and an O. Henry award-winning author.  His books include Whose Song? and Other Stories (2000); Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent (2005), which won the Lambda Literary Award; and The Torturer's Wife (2008).

Professor Glave has edited a collection of essays Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles (2008), which is also a Lambda

Literary Award winner.   As a writer, he has won praise for his unique style

and for his exploration of taboo and politically volatile topics.  His most recent book, which will come out shortly, is a collection of his own essays, entitled Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh; all of the essays collected address Glave's passionate commitment to social justice and human truth.



A wine reception will follow the lecture.  Everyone is invited and the Lecture is free and open to the public.