Odious Caribbean Women and the Palpable Aesthetics of Transgression
examines the methods through which the works of French Caribbean
women resist hedonistic conceptions of pleasure, "art for art's
sake" aestheticism, and commodification through representations of
"uglified" spaces, transgressive "deglamorified" women's bodies in
pain and explicit corporeal and sexual behaviors. Gladys M. Francis
offers an original approach through her reading together of the
literary, visual, and performing arts (as well as traditional
Caribbean dance, music, and oral practices) to arrive at a
transregional (trans-Caribbean and transatlantic), trans-genre
(with regard to forms of text), and transdisciplinary conversation
in Francophone studies, postcolonial studies, and cultural studies.
This interweaving is illustrated through the artistic engagements
of artists such as Ina Cesaire, Maryse Conde, Sylvaine Dampierre,
Fabienne Kanor, Lenablou, Beatrice Melina, Gisele Pineau, Simone
Schwarz-Bart, and Miriam Warner-Vieyra. How can we investigate,
theoretically or critically, the aesthetically unpleasing found in
depictions of odious female protagonists or female performers? What
is the aesthetic value of transgressional women's bodies? This book
presents novel tools to understand how these women artists mark and
re-instate embodied trauma, survival, and resistance into history.
It posits that cultural performances can disrupt a culture-as-text
ethnocentrism, for, these works provide the means to expose the
tangible aesthetics through which the body becomes an archive that
bears the psychological, physical and structural suffering. This
project also demonstrates the ways through which the corporeal
realm offered by these transgressive works (through explicit female
perspectives on sex, love, and gender) challenges our moral
sensibilities, works to sabotage the voyeuristic gaze, and
stimulates a new methodology for reading the women's body. It
focuses on the complex layers of identity formation and bodily
representations with respect to issues of sex, consumerism,
commodification, violence, gender and women studies, and ethics and
moral issues.
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