Sexuality, Gender and Nationalism in Caribbean Literature

Houlden, Kate

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“…1 Whilst there is a trend toward rediscovering and/or reexamining British-Caribbean and British-African writing and postwar culture with regard to its queer (dis)contents (e.g. Hoad 2007;Hoyle 2010;Batra 2016;Gairola 2016;Houlden 2013Houlden , 2017Cummings 2020), this is by no means a mainstream movement, but one in continuing need of centring. In other words, queerness is still in the process of acquiring a proper "house" or "home" in black British scholarship; in turn, black queer scholarly perspectives are still becoming more attuned to the specificities of the British context.…”

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Queer Home-Making and Black Britain: Claiming, Ageing, Living

Koegler

2020

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black British context and to disempowering narratives of queer diaspora. They position queer ageing, frequently couched in silences and/or heterosexist othering, as central for demands and representations of queer viability, and thus for legitimizing queer claims to citizenship. The novels thus offer diverse contributions to an ongoing process of making a home for queerness in imaginations of black Britain. Read in the current context of surging racism, populism, and homophobia, they also stand as stark reminders of the diversity and validity of non-normative life paths as well as of the legitimacy and humanity of those seeking "liveable lives" in Britain and elsewhere.

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