Buyers Beware Insurgency and Consumption in Caribbean Popular Culture - Critical Caribbean Studies

Buyers Beware offers a new perspective for critical inquiries about the practices of consumption in (and of) Caribbean popular culture. The book revisits commonly accepted representations of the Caribbean from "less respectable" segments of popular culture such as dancehall culture and 'sistah lit' that proudly jettison any aspirations toward middle-class respectability. Treating these pop cultural texts and phenomena with the same critical attention as dominant mass cultural representations of the region allows Patricia Joan Saunders to read them against the grain and consider whether and how their "pulp" preoccupation with contemporary fashion, music, sex, fast food, and television, is instructive for how race, class, gender, sexuality and national politics are constructed, performed, interpreted, disseminated and consumed from within the Caribbean.

ISBN:	9780813571225
Publisher:	Rutgers University Press
Imprint:	Rutgers University Press
Published date:	30 May 2022
DEWEY:	339.47
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	218 .
Weight:	298g
Height:	235mm
Width:	156mm
Spine width:	18mm

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