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From: frederic-AT-dept.english.upenn.edu (Rhonda D. Frederick)
Subject: Re: FW: Afro-Caribbean lesbian and gay poets.
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 11:20:29 -0500 (EST)


ABELL,

You might want to look at folklore.  I have a friend in Penn's Folklore 
Department doing something with Caribbean women and lesbianism.  Also, I 
think Olive Senior (I'm really not sure) does something with higglers 
(Jamaican market women) and lesbianism.  Also try the work of folklorist 
Roger Abrahams (he has some old stuff I think) on these market women.

I don't know any poets, but you might want to look at Kindaid's _Annie 
John_ and _At the Bottom of the River_, particularly the parts about the 
Red Girl (in the former) and marrying her mother (in the latter).  

Rhonda
frederic-AT-dept.english.upenn.edu

According to ABELL: > 
> >> Hi
> >> 
> >> I'm trying to find a subject for my final undergrad. year dissertation. The 
> >> field must be post-colonial, and I would like to do something on lesbian and 
> >> gay Afro-Caribbean writers. However, first problem, I can't find any poets who 
> >> are lesbian or gay; and secondly I've looked through lesbian and gay theory 
> >> but haven't found any post-colonial references and vice-versa. 
> >> 
> >> I would really appreciate any help that anybody could give.
> >> 
> >> Many thanks
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Dave.
> >> 
> >
> >I take it you've come across the writings of Michelle Cliff? I know a few
> >lesbigay West Indian writers, but it isn't my job to out them.
> >
> >
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> for post-colonial queer theory, you might want to look at Dollimore's Sexual
> Dissidence - like you, i have been trying to meld the poco with the queer
> and have had difficulty finding authors (in either discipline) that
> do such a meld.
> 
> good luck
> 
> trent
> 
> 
> 
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