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Island bodies transgressive sexualities in the Caribbean imagination
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Title
Island bodies [electronic resource] : transgressive sexualities in the Caribbean imagination / Rosamond S. King.
ISBN
0813048893
9780813048895
9780813049809
Published
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2014©2014. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm)
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Summary
Island Bodies analyzes cultural production from Caribbean and Caribbean diaspora writers that flouts sexual norms. The chapters focus on how homosexuality, interracial relationships, transgendered people, and women's sexual agency are portrayed in film, music, and literature.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC 2014 Complete.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2014 Global Cultural Studies.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2014 Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 12, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: From the foreign-local to the Caribglobal
The Caribbean trans continuum and backhanded re/presentation
"El secreto abierto": visibility, confirmation, and Caribbean men who desire men
"This is you": "Invisibility," community, and women who desire women
"Force-ripe": Caribbean women's sexual agency
One love? Caribbean men and white women.
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