Sex and the Caribbean 

A Symposium at the University of Essex, Tuesday 3 May 2011

Speakers and Titles
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Ronald Cummings (Leeds)
Queer Marronage and the Politics of Urban Space

Alison Donnell (Reading)
Reading a Caribbean Queerness

Ian Dudley (Essex)
Scientific Subjects/Objects of Desire: Amerindian Bodies in Edward Goodall's 'Sketches in British Guiana', 1841-1843

Kate Houlden (Queen Mary)
The Plantations of the Americas: Sex in the Writing of John Hearne

Wendy Knepper (Brunel)
Eros & Citizenship: The Fragmegrated Body Politic in a Globalising World

Wendy McMahon (UEA)
The Origins of Man: Contemporary Literary Representations of Masculinity in the Caribbean

Patricia Murray (London)
Men Without Women: Exploring Male Relations in Three Trinidadian Writers

Jak Peake (Essex)
Sex, Desire and Generation in Trinidadian Fiction: From the Sweetman to the Vampire

Readings and Discussion from Novelists

Lawrence Scott
(Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Best Book in Canada and the Caribbean, 1999)

Monique Roffey
(Orange Prize Shortlist, 2010)
'Against Stereotyping the Whore'

Sponsored by
American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography (AHRC project)
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies