Brand Jamaica

Reimagining a National Image and Identity
Herausgeber: Johnson, Hume; Gentles-Peart, Kamille

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Produktbeschreibung

Hume Johnson is an associate professor of public relations and media studies at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island. She is the author of Challenges to Civil Society: Popular Protest and Governance in Jamaica.¿ Kamille Gentles-Peart is¿an associate professor of communication and media studies at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island. She is the author of Romance with Voluptuousness: Caribbean Women and Thick Bodies in the United States (Nebraska, 2016) and the coeditor, with Maurice L. Hall, of Re-constructing Place and Space: Media, Power, Discourse and the Constitution of Caribbean Diasporas. ¿

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9781496200563
• ISBN-10: 149620056X
• Artikelnr.: 55504538

Autorenporträt

Hume Johnson is an associate professor of public relations and media studies at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island. She is the author of Challenges to Civil Society: Popular Protest and Governance in Jamaica.  Kamille Gentles-Peart is an associate professor of communication and media studies at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island. She is the author of Romance with Voluptuousness: Caribbean Women and Thick Bodies in the United States (Nebraska, 2016) and the coeditor, with Maurice L. Hall, of Re-constructing Place and Space: Media, Power, Discourse and the Constitution of Caribbean Diasporas.  

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments    
Introduction    
Hume Johnson and Kamille Gentles-Peart
1. Between Fame and Infamy: The Dialectical Tension in Jamaica’s Nation
Brand    
Hume Johnson
2. Branding the Nation: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Jamaica Tourist
Board’s Commercial Campaigns    
Nickesia Gordon
3. Women of “Paradise”: Tourism Marketing and the Lived Realities of
Jamaican Women in the United States    
Kamille Gentles-Peart
4. Brand Jamaica and the Economic Cost of Homophobia: Initiating a
Conversation    
Anna Kasafi Perkins
5. An (Un)easy Sell: Rebrandings of Jamaica in Marlon James’s A Brief
History of Seven Killings and Its French and Spanish Translations    
Laëtitia Saint-Loubert
6. Brand Kingston: Reimagining Jamaica’s Capital City    
Hume Johnson
7. Hold On to What You Got: Intellectual Property and Jamaican Symbols and
Culture    
Steffen Mussche-Johansen and Hume Johnson
Final Thoughts    
Hume Johnson and Kamille Gentles-Peart
References    
List of Contributors    
Index