The sexual politics of empire : postcolonial homophobia in Haiti /

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"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 co...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Durban, Erin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2022]
Series:National Women's Studies Association / University of Illinois First Book Prize
Subjects:
Homophobia > Haiti.
Homophobia > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Sexual minorities > Haiti > Social conditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General.
RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Homophobia.
Society & culture: general.
Family and Relationships.
Haiti.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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 Michèle 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.

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