Description: In Island Bodies, Rosamond King examines sexualities, violence, and repression in the Caribbean experience. She analyses the sexual norms and expectations portrayed in Caribbean and diaspora literature, music, film, and popular culture to show how many individuals contest traditional roles by manoeuvring within and/or trying to change their society's binary gender systems. She skilfully demonstrates that these transgressions 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 and its multilingual and multidisciplinary approach, Island Bodies addresses homosexuality, interracial relations, transgender people, and women's sexual agency in Dutch, Francophone, Anglophone, and Hispanophone works of Caribbean literature.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.
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EAN: 9780813049809
UPC: 9780813049809
ISBN: 9780813049809
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Book Title: Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Ca
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Island Bodies : Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Subject: Caribbean & Latin American, Lgbt Studies / General, Subjects & Themes / Women, Sociology / General, Gender Studies, LGBT
Publication Year: 2014
Item Height: 1 in
Item Weight: 20.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.4 in
Author: Rosamond S. King
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Social Science
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
