The Sexual Politics of Empire : Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti

• Autore: Durban Erin L
• Pubblicazione: Champaign : , : University of Illinois Press, , 2023; ©2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 pages)
• Disciplina: 306.76/6097294
• Soggetto topico: Homophobia - Religious aspects - Christianity; Homophobia; RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General; Sexual minorities - Haiti - Social conditions; Homophobia - Haiti
• Soggetto geografico: Haiti
• Classificazione: SOC064000REL105000
• Nota di contenuto: Perverting Haiti: the transnational imperialist discourse of the Black republic as the premodern land of "voodoo/vaudoux" -- The missionary position: U.S. Protestant missionaries and religious homophobia -- Evangelical Christian homophobia and the Michele Pierre-Louis controversy -- "Zonbi, zonbi" at the ghetto biennale: a queer act of intervention against postcolonial homophobia -- The sexual politics of rescue: the global LGBTQI and postcolonial homophobia after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti -- The emergence of a social movement against homophobia -- Epilogue: the transnational #blacklivesmatter movement and the serialization of Black (queer) death.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Evangelical Christians and members of the global LGBTQI human rights movement have vied for influence in Haiti since the 2010 earthquake. Each side accuses the other of serving foreign interests. Yet each proposes future foreign interventions on behalf of their respective causes despite the country's traumatic past with European colonialism and American imperialism. As Erin L. Durban shows, two discourses dominate discussions of intervention. One maintains imperialist notions of a backward Haiti so riddled with cultural deficiencies that foreign supervision is necessary to overcome Haitians' resistance to progress. The other sees Haiti as a modern but failed state that exists only through its capacity for violence, including homophobia. In the context of these competing claims, Durban explores the creative ways that same-sex desiring and gender creative Haitians contend with anti-LGBTQI violence and ongoing foreign intervention. Compelling and thought-provoking, The Sexual Politics of Empire examines LGBTQI life in contemporary Haiti against the backdrop of American imperialism and intervention"--
• Titolo autorizzato: The Sexual Politics of Empire
• ISBN: 0-252-04800-8; 0-252-05380-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910890883203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: NWSA / UIP First Book Prize