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Words to our now : imagination and dissent
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Words to our now : imagination and dissent

Author: Thomas Glave
Publisher: Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, ©2005.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary: Essays regarding prejudice and inhumanity, by a gay Jamaican American.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Thomas Glave
ISBN: 9780816646791 0816646791
OCLC Number: 65656161
Description: 264 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Baychester : a memory -- Toward a nobility of the imagination : Jamaica's shame (an open letter to the people of Jamaica) -- (Re-)recalling Essex Hemphill : words to our now -- Fire and ink : toward a quest for language, history, and a moral imagination -- Whose Caribbean? an allegory, in part -- These blocks, not square (five movements) -- The death and light of Brian Williamson -- Regarding Carolivia Herron's Thereafter Johnnie, so long swept aside : why? -- Between Jamaica(n) and (North) America(n) : convergent (divergent) territories -- On the difficulty of confiding, with complete love and trust, in some heterosexual "friends" -- Panic, despair : when the words do not come (but then an unexpected journey) -- Regarding a Black male Monica Lewinsky, anal penetration, and Bill Clinton's sacred white anus -- On the importance of returning from abroad to the United States in a time of imperialism and war (a meditation on dissent) -- Autumn's relentlessness : crimes against humanity -- Re-membering Steen Fenrich : not a candidate for Matthew Shepardhood -- Abu Ghraib : fragments against forgetting -- Again, the sea.
Responsibility: Thomas Glave.
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Essays regarding prejudice and inhumanity, by a gay Jamaican American.

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