Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination

摘要

The study of sexuality in the Caribbean has now truly come of age. Rosamond King and Angélique Nixon have built dynamic new works upon the pioneering contributions of such scholars as M. Jacqui Alexander, Kamala Kempadoo, David Murray, Faith Smith, Mimi Sheller and numerous others, synthesizing two decades of Caribbean sexualities literature and charting new conceptual terrain in their own distinctive ways. Each of these author's inaugural scholarly monographs has received an award from the Caribbean Studies Association: King's Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination won the 2015 Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Award while Nixon's Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture was awarded the 2016 Barbara Christian Prize. Taken together, these books focus attention upon the significance of erotic autonomy, creative expression, and cultural resistance in the region, not only in terms of the Caribbean present, but also its possible futures.