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Our Caribbean Our Caribbean A GATHERING OF LESBIAN AND GAY WRITING FROM THE ANTILLES Edited and with an Introduction by Thomas Glave DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Durham & London 2008 © 2008 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper © Designed by Jennifer Hill Typeset in Carter and Cone Galliard by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book. To all those above the water and beneath it, still silent CONTENTS ix Acknowledgments I THOMAS GLAVE Introduction: Desire through the Archipelago 13 JOSE ALCANTARA ALMANZAR, Dominican Republic Lulti or the Metamorphosis (1995) 21 ALDO ALVAREZ, Puerto Rico Property Values (2001) 34 REINALDO ARENAS, Cuba Eroticism (1992) 51 RANE ARROYO, Puerto Rico/US. Three Poems: Saturday Night in San Juan with the Right Sailors (2004) Almost a Revolution for Two in Bed (2004) Tropical Fever (2003) 53 JESUS J. BARQUET, Cuba Three Poems: Transactions (2001) San Francisco — New Orleans (2001) The Image Saves (1994) 57. MARILYN BOBES, Cuba Somebody Has to Cry (1998) 70 DIONNE BRAND, Trinidad Elizete, Beckoned (1996) 78 TIMOTHY S. CHIN, Jamaica “Bullers” and “Battymen”: Contesting Homophobia in Black Popular Culture and Contemporary Caribbean Literature (1 997) | 97 MICHELLE CLIFF, Jamaica Ecce Homo (2002) IOI WESLEY E. A. CRICHLOW, Trinidad History, (Re)Memory, Testimony, and Biomythography: Charting a Buller Man’s Trinidadian Past (2004) 132 MABEL CUESTA, Cuba Other Islanders on Lesbos: A Retrospective Look at the History of Lesbians in Cuba (2004) 142 OCHY CURIEL, Dominican Republic Autonomy in Lesbian-Feminist Politics (2004) 153. FAIZAL DEEN, Guyana/Trinidad Three Poems: Young Faggot (2003) The Magical Real (2003) Surrender (2003) I58 PEDRO DE JESUS, Cuba The Portrait (1998) 173, R. ERICA DOYLE, Trinidad/US. Tante Merle (1999) 177. THOMAS GLAVE, Jamaica/US. Whose Caribbean? An Allegory, in Part (2005) 191 ROSAMOND S. KING, Trinidad More Notes on the Invisibility of Caribbean Lesbians (2005) 197 HELEN KLONARIS, Bahamas Independence Day Letter (2004) 202 LAWRENCE LA FOUNTAIN-STOKES, 316 COLIN ROBINSON, viii Trinidad Puerto Rico &# De un pajaro las dos alas: The Mechanic (1998) Travel Notes of a Queer Puerto Rican 320 ASSOTTO SAINT, in Havana (2002) Haiti CONTENTS 233 AUDRE LORDE, Haiti: A Memory Journey (1996) Grenada/Barbados/U.S. Of Generators and Survival: 325 ANDREW SALKEY, Jamaica/Panama Hugo Letter (1990) From Zami: A New Spelling Johnnie, London, 1960 (1 960) of My Name (1982) 336 LAWRENCE SCOTT, Trinidad 252 SHANI MOOTOO, Trinidad/Treland I Want to Follow My Friend (1994) Out on Main Street (1993) 344. MAKEDA SILVERA, 261 ANTON NIMBLETT, Jamaica Man Royals and Sodomites: Trinidad Time and Tide (2002) Some Thoughts on the Invisibility of Afro-Caribbean Lesbians (1992) 268 ACHY OBEJAS, Cuba 355 H. NIGEL THOMAS, St. Vincent We Came All the Way Jerome (1993) from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? (1994) 360 RINALDO WALCOTT, 281 LEONARDO PADURA FUENTES, Barbados/Canada Cuba Fragments of Toronto’s Black The Hunter (1999) Queer Community: From a Life Still Being Lived (2005) 290 VIRGILIO PINERA, 368 GLORIA WEKKER, Cuba Suriname The Face (1956) Mati-ism and Black Lesbianism: 296 PATRICIA POWELL, Two Idealtypical Expressions of Jamaica Female Homosexuality in Black Dale and Ian (1994) Communities of the Diaspora (1996) 304 KEVIN EVEROD QUASHIE, 382 LAWSON WILLIAMS, St. Kitts Jamaica Genesis (2003) On Homophobia and Gay Rights Activism in Jamaica (2000) 308 JUANITA RAMOS, Puerto Rico 389 Glossary Bayamén, Brooklyn y yo (1987) 393 Contributors ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I extend sincere thanks to the editor for this project, Ken Wissoker, without whose generosity and insight this gathering, in its present form, would not be-a reality. My thanks also to all the staff at Duke University Press who ensured that this collection received the best possible care while in their midst. Particular thanks to the ever-meticulous Molly Balikov. I cannot thank enough all the writers, scholars, colleagues, and friends — several of whose work appears here — who provided the names and locations of more writers, possibilities, suggestions, and a generally inestimable amount of truly invaluable information. I am particularly grateful to Maureen T. Reddy, Charles H. Rowell, Lisa Li Shen Yun, and Leo Wilton for their advice, support, and friendship. I am honored to know them also as colleagues. I am also extremely grateful to my esteemed colleagues Juanita Diaz-Cotto and Law- rence La Fountain-Stokes for so generously helping this gathering to realize a wider Caribbean. Thanks to the translators who made it possible for some of the works in this collection to be published: Dick Cluster (with extra gratitude for his paciencia tan fuerte!), Dolores M. Koch, Harry Morales, Mark Schafer, Gil- berto Lucero, and Michael Ray. Special thanks to Ina Brownridge at the State University of New York, Binghamton, for her technical and technological support and suggestions, all of which made the ultimate process of dealing with a book-in-progress of this size both more manageable and less stressful. My appreciation to the English department and administration of sUNY Binghamton for providing me with leave time during which I was able to work extensively on this book. Special thanks to those in my family who, when they heard about my interest in this project, said, “Yes.” Very special thanks to Anne Higginbottom.

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