Buyers Beware : : Insurgency and Consumption in Caribbean Popular Culture / / Patricia Joan Saunders.
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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical Caribbean Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (218 p.) :; 25 color images |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea—Situating Caribbean Pop Culture Globally
- 1 Is Not Everything Good to Eat, Good to Talk: Sexual Economy and Dancehall Music in the Global Marketplace
- 2 Buyers Beware, Hoodwinking on the Rise: Epistemologies of Consumption in “Sistah Lit”
- 3 “Who’s On Top?” Power, Pleasure, and the Politics of Taste
- 4 “Fashion ova Style” The Art of Self-Fashioning in Jamaican Pop Culture
- 5 “Outta Order” or “Outta Door”? Caribbean Women Performing Power, Politics, and Sexuality
- 6 Gardening in the Garrisons (Un)Visibility in Contemporary Caribbean Art
- Conclusion “Puuulll Uuuuuuup”: Dissident Dreams of Cultural Insurgency
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author