Contents
Editor's Note / viii

Introduction / 1
Michael A. Bucknor and Conard James, Guest Editors

FEATURE ARTICLES

Gangstas and Bush Cockerels: The Body, Gender and Masculinity in the Work of Ebony G. Patterson / 8

VEERLE POUPEYE

The Gyalification of Man: The Expression of Male-Male Conflict in Jamaica and the Roots of Homoeroticism in the Political Ideology, Ontology and Praxis of White Supermacy / 21

CLINTON HUTTON

"Looking for ah Indian Man": Popular Culture and the Dilemmas of Indo-Trinidadian Masculinity / 46

RHODA REDDOCK

Caribbean Literary Discourses on the Polyvalence of masculinity / 64

LINDEN LEWIS

Queering the Line: Challenging Gender in Myriam Chancy's Spirit of Haiti / 84

KEITHLEY WOOLWARD

COMMENTARY
On That Island of Broken Penises / 101

KEI MILLER

ARCHIVE GEMS

Man, Sex and Livity / 106

POEM

House Cleaning ( for Wendy ) / 115

MEL COOKE

BOOK REVIEWS

Maja Horn, Masculinity after Trujillo: The politics of gender in Dominican Literature / 118

REVIEWED BY CONRAD JAMES

Rosamond King, Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination / 122

REVIEWED BY ALISON DONNELL

Maria Cristina Fumagalli, Benedicte Ledent and Roberto del Valle Alcala, eds., The Cross-Dressed Caribbean: Writing, Politics, Sexualities / 125

REVIEWED BY EMILY L. TAYLOR

Louis J. Parascandola and Carl A. Wade, eds., Eric Walrond: The Critical Heritage / 128

REVIEWED BY LEAH ROSENBERG

Olive Senior, Dying to Better Themselves: West Indians and the Building of the Panama canal / 132

REVIEWED BY F.S.J. LEDGISTER

Valerie K. Orlando and Sandra Messinger Cypess, eds., Reimagining the Caribbean: Conversations among the Creole, English, French, and Spanish Caribbean / 135

REVIEWED BY GOSNELL I. YORKE

E.E.H. Griffith, Ye Shall Dream: Patriarch Granville Williams and the Barbados Spiritual Baptists; R.W. Nicholls, The Jumbies' Playing Ground: Old World Influences on Afro-Creole Masquerades in the Eastern Caribbean / 138

REVIEWED BY BRIDGET BRERETON

Keth McNeal, Trance and Modernity in the Southern Caribbean: African and Hindu Popular Religions in Trinidad and Tobago / 143

REVIEWED BY NLINI NATARJAN

Kim Johnson, The Illustrated Story of Pan / 146

REVIEWED BY KNOLLY MOSES


Notes on Contributors / 148
Books for Review / 151
Submission Guidelines / 156

Include bibliographical references