Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination by Rosamon

Description: Island Bodies by Rosamond S. King Examines sexualities, violence, and repression in the Caribbean experience. Analysing the sexual norms and expectations portrayed in Caribbean and diaspora literature, music, film, and popular culture, Rosamond King skilfully demonstrates how many individuals contest traditional roles by manoeuvring within and/or trying to change their societys binary gender systems. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In Island Bodies, Rosamond King examines sexualities, violence, and repression in the Caribbean experience. Analyzing the sexual norms and expectations portrayed in Caribbean and diaspora literature, music, film, and popular culture, King skillfully demonstrates how many individuals contest traditional roles by maneuvering within and/or trying to change their societys binary gender systems. These transgressions have come to better represent Caribbean culture than the ""official"" representations perpetuated by governmental elites and often codified into laws that reinforce patriarchal, heterosexual stereotypes.Unique in its breadth as well as its multilingual and multidisciplinary approach, Island Bodies addresses homosexuality, interracial relations, transgender people, and womens sexual agency in Dutch, Francophone, Anglophone, and Hispanophone works of Caribbean literature. Additionally, King explores the paradoxical nature of sexuality across the region: discussing sexuality in public is often considered taboo, yet the tourism economy trades on portraying Caribbean residents as hypersexualized. Ultimately King reveals that despite the varied national specificity, differing colonial legacies, and linguistic diversity across the islands, there are striking similarities in the ways Caribglobal cultures attempt to restrict sexuality and in the ways individuals explore and transgress those boundaries. Author Biography Rosamond S. King is assistant professor of English at Brooklyn College and coeditor of Theorizing Homophobias in the Caribbean: Complexities of Place, Desire, and Belonging. Review "Whereas earlier works on Caribbean sexuality tend to be gender-specific, Rosamond King gives herself the space to explore a range of identities and transgressive sexualities. . . . Gives us a new and richly nuanced reading of contemporary Caribbean culture." --e-misférica"An ambitious project. . . . One of the first books to develop a framework that does not just acknowledge but actively thinks through the diverse desires, lives, and experiences of Caribglobal communities."--H-Net"Impressively searching and inclusive. . . . Engages with Anglophone, Francophone, Hispanic, Dutch, and diasporic Caribglobal cultures in order to examine a striking range of material from the 1970s onwards, including literature, film, music and popular cultural forms such as festivals, calypso and activism. . . . Deeply inspiring and instructive."--Caribbean Quarterly"Interrogates years of oppression and shackling decorum in Caribbean sexual space with relentless acuity."--Caribbean Beat"Provides contemporary analysis of the history of sexualities, violence, language, and repression in the Caribbean culture."--Progressive Review Quote "Whereas earlier works on Caribbean sexuality tend to be gender-specific, Rosamond King gives herself the space to explore a range of identities and transgressive sexualities. . . . Gives us a new and richly nuanced reading of contemporary Caribbean culture." --e-misfrica Details ISBN0813062063 Author Rosamond S. King Short Title ISLAND BODIES Pages 272 Publisher University Press of Florida Language English ISBN-10 0813062063 ISBN-13 9780813062068 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2016 Imprint University Press of Florida Subtitle Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination Place of Publication Florida Country of Publication United States Illustrations Illustrations, black and white AU Release Date 2016-06-07 NZ Release Date 2016-06-07 UK Release Date 2016-06-07 DEWEY 810.99729 Audience General Publication Date 2016-06-30 US Release Date 2016-06-30 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:97646997;

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