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Island Bodies - Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination (Hardcover)
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Island Bodies - Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination (Hardcover)
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In Island Bodies, Rosamond King examines sexualities, violence, and
repression in the Caribbean experience. She analyses the sexual
norms and expectations portrayed in Caribbean and diaspora
literature, music, film, and popular culture to show how many
individuals contest traditional roles by manoeuvring within and/or
trying to change their society's binary gender systems. She
skilfully demonstrates that these transgressions better represent
Caribbean culture than the "official" representations perpetuated
by governmental elites and often codified into laws that reinforce
patriarchal, heterosexual stereotypes. Unique in its breadth and
its multilingual and multidisciplinary approach, Island Bodies
addresses homosexuality, interracial relations, transgender people,
and women's sexual agency in Dutch, Francophone, Anglophone, and
Hispanophone works of Caribbean literature. Ultimately King reveals
that despite the varied national specificity, differing colonial
legacies, and linguistic diversity across the islands, there are
striking similarities in the ways Caribglobal cultures attempt to
restrict sexuality and in the ways individuals explore and
transgress those boundaries.
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