This collection showcases how different forms of manhood perform in artistic spaces. The selections take an in-depth review and exploration of the emotional and artistic landscape of Caribbean men who dare to carve out a place for themselves in the visual and performance mediums. The pieces demonstrate that Caribbean men are forging more varied and wholesome ways to describe their masculinities, where they are allowed to thrive and engage in the same spaces without violence and exclusionary attitude, just as they can do in the arts. The manuscript also sets up a nucleus that will allow a progression of essential advances in the scholarly scrutiny of Black men and Black masculinities.This book will interest individuals in the arts, gender studies incorporating masculinities and femininities and black studies, and also prove to be useful for students in high schools and colleges/universities.
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'From every angle and through many genres, Opal Palmer Adisa and Keino Senior, explore masculinity and manhood throughout the Caribbean. This collection of essays, poems and artists' statements makes this the first anthology of its kind. It is impossible to read this book without learning a little more about yourself, whether you are man, woman, or nonbinary!'Jericho BrownPulitzer Prize Winner for 'The Tradition'
Professor Opal Palmer Adisa, diverse and multi-genre, writes poetry, prose, essays and plays. The Former University Director for The Institute of Gender and Development Studies at The University of the West Indies, Regional Headquarters, Adisa is a gender specialist and cultural activist. Adisa has lectured and read/performed her work throughout the United States, South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Germany, Spain, France, England, Prague, Italy, and Bosnia. An award-winning writer, Prof. Adisa has twenty-four titles to her credit, including The Storyteller's Return (2022) and Portia Dreams (2021), the authorised children's biography of Portia Simpson Miller, Jamaica's first female Prime Minister.Dr Keino Senior is the Dean of the School of Arts Management and Humanities at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in Jamaica. Senior received his PhD with High Commendation in Gender and Development Studies from the University of the West Indies. His research and peer-reviewed publications focus on the arts and black masculinities, men, sexuality and reproductive health and rights, and gender relations and power in the Caribbean. Dr Senior is the founding co-chair and co-editor of the Rex Nettleford Arts Conference and the Jonkunnu Arts Journal respectively.
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