Odious Caribbean women and the palpable aesthetics of transgression /

This book centers on visual and literary productions of Francophone Caribbean women. It investigates their aesthetics of violence, pain, the abhorrent, and the "uglification" of the feminine to unravel what makes them transgressive and uncommodifiable. It probes the ways in which these wor...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Francis, Gladys M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017]
Temas:
Caribbean literature (French) > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women authors.
Arts > Caribbean, French-speaking.
Human body in literature.
Pain in literature.
Écrivaines.
Arts > Antilles francophones.
Corps humain dans la littérature.
Douleur dans la littérature.
authors.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
Arts
Human body in literature
Pain in literature
Women authors
Caribbean Area, French-speaking
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Cultural politics, ekphrases writing of resistance, and sensorial aesthetics
  • Meaning making of embodied performatic repertoire
  • Aesthetics of pain: embodied poetics of negation
  • Transgression in pleasure, desire, and gender
  • Conclusion.

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