Rochelle Rowe

Imagining Caribbean womanhood

Race, nation and beauty competitions, 1929-70

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9780719088674
• ISBN-10: 0719088674
• Artikelnr.: 39595036

Autorenporträt

Rochelle Rowe teaches at the University of Exeter

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Caribbean beauty competitions in context 1. The early 'Miss Jamaica' competition: cultural revolution and feminist voices
1929-1950 2. Cleaning up carnival: race
culture and power in the Trinidad 'Carnival Queen' beauty competition
1946-1959 3. Parading the 'crème de la crème': constructing the contest in Barbados
1958-1966 4. Fashioning 'Ebony Cinderellas' and brown icons: Jamaican beauty competitions and the myth of racial democracy
1955-1964 5. 'Colonisation in reverse': Claudia Jones
the West Indian Gazette and the 'Carnival Queen' contest in London
1959-1964 Afterword: a Grenadian 'Miss World'
1970 Bibliography Index