Buyers Beware treats Caribbean pop cultural texts with the same critical attention as dominant mass cultural representations of the region to read them against the grain and consider how, and whether, their “pulp” preoccupation with contemporary fashion, music, sex, fast food, and television, is instructive for how race, class, gender, sexuality, and national politics are disseminated and consumed within the Caribbean.
Buyers Beware treats Caribbean pop cultural texts with the same critical attention as dominant mass cultural representations of the region to read them against the grain and consider how, and whether, their “pulp” preoccupation with contemporary fashion, music, sex, fast food, and television, is instructive for how race, class, gender, sexuality, and national politics are disseminated and consumed within the Caribbean.
PATRICIA JOAN SAUNDERS is an associate professor of English at the University of Miami and a senior editor of Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal. She is the author of Alienation and Repatriation: Translating Identity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature.
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Introduction: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Situating Caribbean Pop Culture Globally Chapter One: Is not Everything Good to Eat, Good to Talk: Sexual Economy and Dancehall Music in the Global Marketplace Chapter Two: Buyers Beware, Hoodwinking on the Rise: Epistemologies of Consumption in “Sistah Lit” Chapter Three: “Who’s On Top?”: Power, Pleasure and the Politics of Taste Chapter Four: “Fashion Ova Style” The Art of Self-Fashioning in Jamaican Pop Culture Chapter Five: “‘Outta Order’or Outta Door?: Caribbean Women Performing Power, Politics & Sexuality” Chapter Six: Gardening in the Garrisons, (Un)Visibility in Contemporary Caribbean Art Conclusion: ‘Puuulll Uuuuuuup:’ Dissident Dreams of Cultural Insurgency Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index
Introduction: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Situating Caribbean Pop Culture Globally Chapter One: Is not Everything Good to Eat, Good to Talk: Sexual Economy and Dancehall Music in the Global Marketplace Chapter Two: Buyers Beware, Hoodwinking on the Rise: Epistemologies of Consumption in “Sistah Lit” Chapter Three: “Who’s On Top?”: Power, Pleasure and the Politics of Taste Chapter Four: “Fashion Ova Style” The Art of Self-Fashioning in Jamaican Pop Culture Chapter Five: “‘Outta Order’or Outta Door?: Caribbean Women Performing Power, Politics & Sexuality” Chapter Six: Gardening in the Garrisons, (Un)Visibility in Contemporary Caribbean Art Conclusion: ‘Puuulll Uuuuuuup:’ Dissident Dreams of Cultural Insurgency Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index
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