The Cross-Dressed Caribbean Writing, Politics, Sexualities |
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| Editor:
| Fumagalli, Maria Cristina
Ledent, Bénédicte
del Valle Alcalá, Roberto |
| Series title: | New World Studies |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8139-3522-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2014 |
| Publisher: | University of Virginia Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $98.00 |
Book Description:
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Studies of sexuality in Caribbean culture are on the rise, focusing mainly on homosexuality and homophobia, or on regional manifestations of normative and non-normative sexualities. This title extends this exploration by using the trope of transvestism not only to analyse texts and contexts from anglophone, francophone, Spanish, Dutch, and diasporic Caribbean literature and film but also to highlight reinventions of sexuality and resistance to different forms of exploitation and oppression.
Studies of sexuality in Caribbean culture are on the rise, focusing mainly on homosexuality and homophobia, or on regional manifestations of normative and non-normative sexualities. This title extends this exploration by using the trope of transvestism not only to analyse texts and contexts from anglophone, francophone, Spanish, Dutch, and diasporic Caribbean literature and film but also to highlight reinventions of sexuality and resistance to different forms of exploitation and oppression.