On the roles of gender, migration, and sexuality in the concept of sexiles, or people who are geographically displaced because of their sexuality, in the Carribean. Analyzes the short story "La Cautiva" by Pedro Juan Soto, the novel "I Am a Martinician Woman" by Mayotte Capécia, and the novel "No Telephone to Heaven" by Michelle Cliff.
"Based on the example of migration to metropolitan France, this paper highlights the importance of systematising a gender perspective in the study of Caribbean migration." (author)
this article charts the connection between gendered concepts of 'whiteness' in Anglo-Caribbean contexts and in metropolitan discourses surrounding British national identity, as articulated in eighteenth-century colonial legislation and official correspondence, popular texts and personal narratives of everyday life. It explores the extent to which the socio-sexual practices of British West Indian whites imperilled the emerging conflation between whiteness and Britishness.
Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
421 p, Contents: Theorizing Caribbean masculinities: Masculinities in transition : gender and the global problematique / Keith Nurse. Unmasking masculinity and deconstructing patriarchy : problems and possibilities within feminist epistemology / Patricia Mohammed. Power games and totalitarian masculinity in the Dominican Republic / E. Antonio de Moya -- Gender socialization, educational performance and peer group relations: Boys of the empire : elite education and the construction of hegemonic masculinity in Barbados, 1875-1920 / Aviston D. Downes. Male privileging and male "academic underperformance" in Jamaica / Mark Figueroa. Masculinities, myths and educational underachievement : Jamaica, Barbados and St Vincent and the Grenadines / Odette Parry. History, (re)memory, testimony and biomythography : charting a buller man's Trinidadian past / Wesley E.A. Crichlow -- Class, ethnicity, nation and notions of masculinity: Black masculinity in Caribbean slavery / Hilary Beckles. Caribbean masculinity at the fin de siècle / Linden Lewis. Globalization, migration and the shaping of masculinity in Belize / Linda M. Matthei and David A. Smith -- Popular culture and literary images of masculinity and femininity: Under women's eyes : literary constructs of Afro-Caribbean masculinity / Paula Morgan. Calling all dragons : the crumbling of Caribbean masculinity / Kenneth Ramchand. I Lawa : the construction of masculinity in Trinidad and Tobago calypso / Gordon Rohlehr. Uniform and weapon / Christopher Cozier
