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Entangled Otherness - Cross-gender Fabrications in the Francophone Caribbean (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,046
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Entangled Otherness - Cross-gender Fabrications in the Francophone Caribbean (Hardcover): Charlotte Hammond

Entangled Otherness - Cross-gender Fabrications in the Francophone Caribbean (Hardcover)

Charlotte Hammond

Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures, 55

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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, this study reveals how opaque strategies of crossing, mimicry and masquerade have enabled resistance to the racialised, gendered and patriarchal classifications of bodies that characterized Enlightenment thought during the French transatlantic slave trade. It engages with archival texts of pre-revolutionary Haiti to offer a historical understanding of current constructions of Caribbean gender most influenced by French colonial legacies. The author argues that cross-dressing, as a form of 'self-fabrication', complicates inherently entangled colonial binaries of identity and resists France's paternalistic gaze. The book's multidisciplinary approach to gender analysis weaves a dialogue between cross-cultural voices garnered from textual and historical analysis, ethnographic interviews and theoretical insight to foreground the continued need to decolonize Eurocentric readings of gender identity in the francophone and creolophone islands, and the Caribbean region more generally. Works of art, film, photography, carnival, performance, and dress, including depictions of fluid identities in the binary-resistant Afro-Creole religion of Vodou, are examined using contemporary performance, gender and social theory from within the region. Entangled Otherness thus makes a unique and timely contribution to the growing body of knowledge and debate in the areas of gender, sexuality and the body in Caribbean Studies.

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Imprint: Liverpool University Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures, 55
Release date: November 2018
First published: 2018
Authors: Charlotte Hammond
Dimensions: 239 x 163mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 978-1-78694-148-0
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Slavery & emancipation
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
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LSN: 1-78694-148-1
Barcode: 9781786941480

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