Citizenship from Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom

365 Pages·2012·1.897 MB·English

by  Mimi Sheller

Citizenship from Below
next wave: new directions
in women’s studies
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A series edited by Inderpal Grewal,
Caren Kaplan, and Robyn Wiegman

CITIZENSHIP
FROM BELOW
MN
Erotic Agency and
Caribbean Freedom
mimi sheller
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Durham & London 2012
∫ 2012 Duke University Press
All rights reserved
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Library of Congress
Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on
the last printed page of this book.
Unless noted otherwise, images are from
the Alexander Dudgeon Gulland
photographic album of Jamaica, 1865,
Graphic Arts Collection, Department of
Rare Books and Special Collections,
Princeton University Library.
For the people of Haiti

Without new visions
we don’t know what to build,
only what to knock down.
robin d. g. kelley,
Freedom Dreams

contents
acknowledgments xi
introduction 1
one History from the Bottom(s) Up 19
two Quasheba, Mother, Queen 48
three Her Majesty’s Sable Subjects 89
four Lost Glimpses of 1865 114
five Sword-Bearing Citizens 142
six ‘‘You Signed My Name, but Not My Feet’’ 166
seven Arboreal Landscapes of Power and Resistance 187
eight Returning the Tourist Gaze 210
nine Erotic Agency and a Queer Caribbean Freedom 239
notes 281
works cited 305
index 339