@article{ref1,
title="(Trans)nationalisms, marronage, and queer Caribbean subjectivities",
journal="Transforming anthropology",
year="2010",
author="Cummings, Ronald",
volume="18",
number="2",
pages="169-180",
abstract="This discussion focuses on discourses of queer subjectivity, Maroon identity, and their relationship to Caribbean nationalism. A key aspect of my argument here is the idea that both queerness and marronage are marked by complex insider/outsider identity positions that resist and complicate binarist discourses of belonging and unbelonging. I situate them instead as &quot;crossroads identities&quot; shaped through processes of the contestation and refashioning of dominant national cultures. In discussing these complex intersecting concepts and identities, I point to the ways in which transnational discourses marked by an ongoing engagement with the paradoxes and tensions of belonging and non-belonging--potentially offers another framework for the conceptualization and mobilization of these identities. Framing marronage and queerness as transnational offers a useful opportunity to reassess and broaden the ways in which discourses of transnationalism have been applied to the reading of Caribbean cultural contexts.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1051-0559",
doi="10.1111/j.1548-7466.2010.01094.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-7466.2010.01094.x"
}