Rihanna is arguably the most commercially successful Caribbean
artist in history. She is Barbadian and has been unwavering in
publicly articulating her national and regional belongings. Still,
there have been varied responses to Rihanna's ascendancy, both in
the Barbadian public and Caribbean community at large - responses
that reveal as much about our own national/regional anxieties as
they do about the artist herself. The cutting edge,
boundary-transgressing, cultural icon Rihanna is certainly subject
to moralistic scrutiny from her global audiences as well; however,
the essays in this collection purposely seek to de-centre the
dominance of the Euro-American gaze, focusing instead on
considerations of the Caribbean artist and her oeuvre from a
Caribbean postcolonial corpus of academic inquiry. To this end,
Rihanna: Barbados World Gurl in Global Popular Culture brings
together U.S. and Caribbean based scholars to discuss issues of
class, gender, sexuality, race, culture, and economy. Using the
concept of diasporic citizenship as a central theoretical frame,
this book intervenes in current questions of national and
transnational circuits of exchange as they pertain to the
commoditization and movement of culture, knowledge, values, and
identity. The contributors- drawing from literature, history,
musicology, sociology, cultural studies, feminist, gender, and
queer studies, the creative/cultural industries and political
science - approach the subjects of Rihanna, globalization, gender
and sexuality, commerce, transnationalism, Caribbean regionalism,
and Barbadian national identity and development, from different
disciplinary and at times radically divergent perspectives. At the
same time, the essays collectively work through the limitations,
possibilities and promise of our best Caribbean imaginings.
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