Free eBooks Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities In The Caribbean Imagination Available To Downloads
Caribbean Studies Association Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Prize “Outstanding. One of the best examinations of the dissonance between official sexual ideologies and actual social and cultural practices I have had the pleasure of reading.”—David William Foster, author of São Paulo: Perspectives on the City and Cultural Production“A thoughtful exploration of how Caribbean women and sexual minorities are at the center of a sexual revolution that refuses containment within Euro-American concepts of identity and sexuality. This is an unprecedented sexual revolution, led by sexual minorities, transforming the region and giving new meanings to what inclusion and liberation look like.”—Amalia L. Cabezas, author of Economies of Desire: Sex Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican RepublicIn 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 society’s 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 women’s 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.
Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: University Press of Florida (June 7, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0813062063
ISBN-13: 978-0813062068
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: Be the first to review this item
Best Sellers Rank: #1,086,476 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #263 in Books > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism > Regional & Cultural > Caribbean & Latin American #3726 in Books > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism > Regional & Cultural > United States
Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination Cruising the Southern and Western Caribbean: A Guide to the Ships & the Ports of Call (Cruising the Southern and Western Caribbean) (Cruising the Southern & Western Caribbean) Sexual Outsiders: Understanding BDSM Sexualities and Communities Island Style Cookbook: Guam's Favorite Soups, Tasty Guam Recipes, Wonderful Chamorro Island Food , Exotic Guam Cookbook Of Soups, Enjoy Awesome Chamorro Guam Food From This Island Cookbook The Queer Caribbean Speaks: Interviews with Writers, Artists, and Activists (New Caribbean Studies) Our Caribbean Kin: Race and Nation in the Neoliberal Antilles (Critical Caribbean Studies) Caribbean Connections: The Dominican Republic (Caribbean Connections: Classroom Resources for Secondary Sch) Caribbean Revolutions and Revolutionary Theory: Assessment of Cuba, Nicaragua and Grenada (Warwick University Caribbean Studies) Critical Interventions in Caribbean Politics and Theory (Caribbean Studies Series) Commonwealth Caribbean Criminal Practice and Procedure (Commonwealth Caribbean Law) Commonwealth Caribbean Public Law (Commonwealth Caribbean Law) Caribbean Geology Into the Third Millennium: Transactions of the Fifteenth Caribbean Geological Conference Caribbean Vegan: Meat-Free, Egg-Free, Dairy-Free, Authentic Island Cuisine for Every Occasion The Spice Necklace: My Adventures in Caribbean Cooking, Eating, and Island Life Dominica: Nature Island of the Caribbean Grenada History, British Virgin Island, Caribbean Islands: Economy, People, Settlement, Government The Making of Grenada : A SUNNY ISLAND FROM OUT OF THE CARIBBEAN SEAS The Valley: A HISTORICAL NARRATIVE OF A CARIBBEAN ISLAND VILLAGE (MARRIAQUA VALLEY, ST. VINCENT & THE GRENADINES) Paradise Delayed - Our New Lives in the Wild. Caribbean Island Life in the Beautiful Archipelago of Bocas del Toro, Panama Caribbean Island: (Libro Completo) Suspense en estado puro (Spanish Edition)
