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While there has been increased attention to issues of sexuality in the Caribbean over the past decade, there continue to be very few in-depth ethnographic studies of sexual minorities in this region. A timely addition to the literature, Flaming Souls explores public discourses focusing on homosexuality and the everyday lives of gay men and ‘queens’in contemporary Barbados.
David A.B. Murray's dynamic study features interviews with government and health agency officials, HIV/AIDS activists, and residents of the country's capital, Bridgetown. Using these and records from local libraries and archives, Murray unravels the complex historical, social, political, and economic forces through which same-sex desire, identity, and prejudice are produced and valued in this Caribbean nation-state. Illustrating the influence of both Euro-American and regional gender and sexual politics on sexual diversity in Barbados, Flaming Souls makes an important contribution to queer studies and the anthropology of sexualities.
- Sales Rank: #1583313 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-04-04
- Released on: 2013-08-08
- Format: Kindle eBook
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‘Flaming Souls succeeds in bringing largely theoretical critiques of (gay) rights discourse to life… This book is useful not only as a primer for those new to this transdisciplinary line of critique, but also as a needed reminder of the material stakes therein.’
(Kenneth Lythgoe QED: A Journal of GLBTQ Worldmaking, vol 1:01:2014) Review
‘I enjoyed every last bit of Flaming Souls – it is smart, thought provoking, theoretically sophisticated, and it excellently frames and critiques the Western biases in LGBTQ discussions. As one of the leading ethnographers of men who love men, David A.B. Murray has captured the essence of what it is to be gay or a queen in Barbados – an especially important endeavour given how little there is out there that uses an anthropological perspective to address the intersection of race, class, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, and age within gay communities of colour. Murray succeeds in avoiding the jargon found in so much cultural anthropology literature, thereby allowing this book to be enjoyed by a general readership and by undergraduate students.’ (A. Lynn Bolles, Department of Women's Studies, University of Maryland)
About the Author
David A.B. Murray is an associate professor of Anthropology and member of the Sexuality Studies Program at York University.
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Rainbow-Flag Males of the Bajan Kind
By Jeffery Mingo
I'm at a public library typing this and just have to do a freestyle review. This book reminds me a lot of a book that a British author wrote about gay men and lesbians in the Middle East. He spelled out the institutional underpinnings of homophobia and then spoke to actual gays, their relationship to the gay West, and their uses of the Internet. I liked that the cover of the book had a snappy painting. However, the men painted looked non-Black to me and that didn't make sense in a book about a place that is significantly Black.
Even before "X-Men 2" made it more blatant, I always thought that "X-Men 1" presented mutants as a metaphor for gay and lesbian youth. A politician says to a researcher speaking about mutants, "How can we legislate for them when we don't know who is one and who isn't!?" Here, Dr. Murray emphasized that Bajan comments about gays oftentimes assumed that no real, live-in-the-flesh gay men existed. (As an aside, supposedly one of the Supreme Court judges in the despicable "Bowers v. Hardwick" case asked, "What do homosexuals look like?")
There is a whole chapter about "Bajan queens," the male-born people that are seen as a gender-based or sexual orientation other. I think Dr. Halberstam wrote a chapter on tensions between butch women and transmen that may be similar to this. Years ago, a US court ruled that a Mexican gay man could not attain asylum because most people in Mexico would never assume he's gay because their image is of men in drag. In a book about Thai lesbians, an author said everyday Thais wouldn't imagine a butch gay man because they assume all are "kathoey." Here, Dr. Murray notes that Bajan queens sometimes identified as trans and sometimes as gay. In Black America, I've seen men call themselves gay just as much as they use "same-gender loving." Some of these terms just don't have the barriers activists may predict in the lives of these real men.
This book is noooooo struggle like Judith Butler or Leo Bersani. Still, it is academic and everyday readers may be intimidated. The interviews of Bajan gay men that everyday readers could understand comes at the end of the text, rather than the start. I thank the author for showing that Bajan gay life isn't hades on Earth. However, I wish he emphasized more that homosexuality is illegal on the book on that island.
I didn't read the chapters chronologically. There is a later chapter in which the author speaks to a white, gay, British man who says Barbados has no gays or that they only go that way to get tourist money. I was worried that this would spread a fallacy that "all the Black Bajans are straight and all the gay tourists are white." However, Dr. Murray does a great job by discussing some Bajan queens that try to get with Jamaican men. First, it breaks the developed vs. undeveloped dichotomy. Second, it shows Black-on-Black gay love, when so many media portrayals act as if Black men can only be with white men and never have interest in each other. However, I feared the relationships would end on a bad note and they did. There's a fictional book about a Black, gay man out there and the title is "Everything But Love." Max Smith wrote an autobiography called "SGL: African America's 3rd Rail" and he never mentions a full-time lover. Supposedly, Don Lemon never mentioned in his autobio that he has a partner. I personally would love to hear more stories in which Black gay men walk off into the sunset with partners.
The following is no fault of the authors, but this personal anecdote couldn't leave my head as I read this book. An academic friend invited me to Barbados. When I arrived at her house she asked if I had a problem at customs and I said no. However, a biracial female friend of mine was harassed by the Bajan women at customs. My friend who invited me said, "I've never heard of any men or whites who had a problem at customs, but US Black women are mistreated. Supposedly, in Barbados, local women think that all Black American women are light-skinned and only visit the island to steal single men." So while homosexuality is a controversy over there, there are other sexual and reproductive schisms that play themselves out loudly too on that island.
I didn't like this book as much as "Opacity." However, because there is substantial documentation of homophobia in the West Indies, I am glad that books are coming out that dissect the situation.
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