Nature's Wild

Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean

Andil Gosine (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2021
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-1365-5 (ISBN)

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In Nature's Wild, Andil Gosine engages with questions of humanism, queer theory, and animality to examine and revise understandings of queer desire in the Caribbean. Surveying colonial law, visual art practices, and contemporary activism, Gosine shows how the very concept of homosexuality in the Caribbean (and in the Americas more broadly) has been overdetermined by a colonially influenced human/animal divide. Gosine refutes this presupposed binary and embraces animality through a series of case studies: a homoerotic game called puhngah, the institution of gender-based dress codes in Guyana, and efforts toward the decriminalization of sodomy in Trinidad and Tobago-including the work of famed activist Colin Robinson, paintings of human animality by Guadeloupean artist Kelly Sinnapah Mary, and Gosine's own artistic practice. In so doing, he troubles the ways in which individual and collective anxieties about “wild natures” have shaped the existence of Caribbean people while calling for a reassessment of what political liberation might look like.

Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient

Andil Gosine is Professor of Environmental Arts and Justice at York University and coauthor of Environmental Justice and Racism in Canada.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Puhngah! 13
2. Clothes Make the Man 32
3. The Father, a Godfather, and the Specter of Beasts Old and New 62
4. DÉsir Cannibale 103
5. Natures' Wild 130
Notes 153
Works Cited 159
Index 171

Erscheinungsdatum	18.10.2021
Zusatzinfo	35 illustrations, incl. 11 in color
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4780-1365-6 / 1478013656
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-1365-5 / 9781478013655
Zustand	Neuware