Buyers beware :: insurgency and consumption in Caribbean popular culture /

"Buyers Beware offers a new perspective for critical inquiries about the practices of consumption in (and of) Caribbean popular culture. The book revisits commonly accepted representations of the Caribbean from "less respectable" segments of popular culture such as dancehall culture a...

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Main Author: Saunders, Patricia Joan, 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, : Rutgers University Press, [2022]
Series:Critical Caribbean studies.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:"Buyers Beware offers a new perspective for critical inquiries about the practices of consumption in (and of) Caribbean popular culture. The book revisits commonly accepted representations of the Caribbean from "less respectable" segments of popular culture such as dancehall culture and 'sistah lit' that proudly jettison any aspirations toward middle-class respectability. Treating these pop cultural texts and phenomena with the same critical attention as dominant mass cultural representations of the region allows Patricia Joan Saunders to read them against the grain and consider whether and how their "pulp" preoccupation with contemporary fashion, music, sex, fast food, and television, is instructive for how race, class, gender, sexuality and national politics are constructed, performed, interpreted, disseminated and consumed from within the Caribbean"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (vii, 225 pages) : color illustrations.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780813571249
0813571243

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