UID:
almahu_9949546459602882
Format:
1 online resource (218 p.) :
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25 color images
ISBN:
9780813571249
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9783110993899
Series Statement:
Critical Caribbean Studies
Content:
Buyers Beware offers a new perspective for critical inquiries about the practices of consumption in (and of) Caribbean popular culture. The book revisits commonly accepted representations of the Caribbean from "less respectable" segments of popular culture such as dancehall culture and 'sistah lit' that proudly jettison any aspirations toward middle-class respectability. Treating these pop cultural texts and phenomena with the same critical attention as dominant mass cultural representations of the region allows Patricia Joan Saunders to read them against the grain and consider whether and how their "pulp" preoccupation with contemporary fashion, music, sex, fast food, and television, is instructive for how race, class, gender, sexuality and national politics are constructed, performed, interpreted, disseminated and consumed from within the Caribbean.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea-Situating Caribbean Pop Culture Globally --
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1 Is Not Everything Good to Eat, Good to Talk: Sexual Economy and Dancehall Music in the Global Marketplace --
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2 Buyers Beware, Hoodwinking on the Rise: Epistemologies of Consumption in "Sistah Lit" --
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3 "Who's On Top?" Power, Pleasure, and the Politics of Taste --
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4 "Fashion ova Style" The Art of Self-Fashioning in Jamaican Pop Culture --
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5 "Outta Order" or "Outta Door"? Caribbean Women Performing Power, Politics, and Sexuality --
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6 Gardening in the Garrisons (Un)Visibility in Contemporary Caribbean Art --
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Conclusion "Puuulll Uuuuuuup": Dissident Dreams of Cultural Insurgency --
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Acknowledgments --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index --
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About the Author
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993899
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110994810
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993752
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110993738
In:
Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110766479
Language:
English
DOI:
10.36019/9780813571249
URL:
https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813571249?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813571249
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