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Island bodies : transgressive sexualities in the Caribbean imagination
- Title
- Island bodies : transgressive sexualities in the Caribbean imagination / Rosamond S. King.
- Author
- King, Rosamond S.
- Publication
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014]
- ©2014
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Details
- Description
- xii, 261 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Island Bodies analyzes cultural production from Caribbean and Caribbean diaspora writers that flouts sexual norms. The chapters focus on how homosexuality, interracial relationships, transgendered people, and women's sexual agency are portrayed in film, music, and literature.
- Subject
- Homosexuality and literature > Caribbean Area
- Sexual minorities > Caribbean Area
- Homosexuality > Caribbean Area
- Interracial marriage > Caribbean Area
- Transgender people > Caribbean Area
- Homosexuality and music > Caribbean Area
- Homosexuality and motion pictures > Caribbean Area
- Caribbean Area > Social conditions
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-250) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: From the foreign-local to the Caribglobal -- The Caribbean trans continuum and backhanded re/presentation -- "El secreto abierto": visibility, confirmation, and Caribbean men who desire men -- "This is you": "Invisibility, " community, and women who desire women -- "Force-ripe": Caribbean women's sexual agency -- One love? Caribbean men and white women.
- Call Number
- Sc E 17-531
- ISBN
- 9780813049809
- 0813049806
- LCCN
- 2013051132
- OCLC
- 857740684
- Author
- King, Rosamond S., author.
- Title
- Island bodies : transgressive sexualities in the Caribbean imagination / Rosamond S. King.
- Publisher
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014]
- Copyright Date
- ©2014
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-250) and index.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 17-531JFE 14-5406