Buyers beware : insurgency and consumption in Caribbean popular culture /

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"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Saunders, Patricia Joan, 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, : Rutgers University Press, [2022]
Colección:Critical Caribbean studies.
Temas:
Consumption (Economics) > Social aspects > Caribbean Area.
Consumers > Caribbean Area.
Popular culture > Caribbean Area.
Culture populaire > Caraïbes (Région)
Consommateurs > Caraïbes (Région)
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Civilization
Consumers
Consumption (Economics) > Social aspects
Popular culture
Caribbean Area > Civilization.
Caribbean Area
critical inquiry, shopping, buyer, consumption, Caribbean studies, Caribbean, Caribbean popular culture, pop culture, sistah lit, middle-class, pulp, contemporary fashion, music, sex, fast food, television, race, gender, class, sexuality, national politics, perform, Global Marketplace, Epistemology, Self-Fashioning, Jamaican Pop Culture, Caribbean Women, Contemporary Caribbean Art, Cultural Insurgency.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Between the devil and the deep blue sea : Situating Caribbean pop culture globally
  • Is not everything good to eat, good to talk : Sexual economy and dancehall music in the global marketplace
  • Buyers beware, hoodwinking on the rise : Epistemologies of consumption in "sistah lit"
  • "Who's on top?" : Power, pleasure and the politics of taste
  • "Fashion ova style" : The art of self-fashioning in Jamaican pop culture
  • "Outta order" or "outta door?" : Caribbean women performing power, politics and sexuality"
  • Gardening in the garrisons : (Un)visibility in contemporary Caribbean art
  • Conclusion : "Puuulll Uuuuuuup" : Dissident dreams of cultural insurgency.

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