Entangled otherness : cross-gender fabrications in the Francophone Caribbean /

Entangled Otherness explores the dynamics of cross-dressing and gender performance in contemporary francophone Caribbean cultures through a range of visual and textual media. Original in its comparative focus on the islands of Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe and their diasporic communities in France,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hammond, Charlotte (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2018.
Series:Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 55.
Subjects:
Cross-dressing > Caribbean, French-speaking.
Sex role > Caribbean, French-speaking.
Travestisme > Antilles francophones.
Rôle selon le sexe > Antilles francophones.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
Cross-dressing
Sex role
Caribbean Area, French-speaking
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Costuming colonial resistance in the New World
  • Fanmi se dra : cross-gender fabrications of identity in Des hommes et des dieux
  • Visual détours : refracting the blan female gaze in Haitian Vodou
  • Spectatorial travestisme
  • Dressed to kill : opacity and masquerade in Claire Denis's J'ai pas sommeil
  • Conclusion : past scripts, future visions.

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