Bodies and Bones Feminist Rehearsal and Imagining Caribbean Belonging |
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| Author:
| Shields, Tanya L. |
| Series title: | New World Studies |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8139-3596-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2014 |
| Publisher: | University of Virginia Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $55.00USD $55.00 |
Book Description:
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Argues that a repeated engagement with the Caribbean's iconic and historic touchstones offers a new sense of (inter)national belonging that brings an alternative and dynamic vision to the gendered legacy of brutality against black bodies, flesh, and bone. Using a distinctive methodology she calls "feminist rehearsal" to chart the Caribbean's multiple and contradictory accounts of historical events, the author highlights the gendered and emergent connections between art, history, and belonging.
Argues that a repeated engagement with the Caribbean's iconic and historic touchstones offers a new sense of (inter)national belonging that brings an alternative and dynamic vision to the gendered legacy of brutality against black bodies, flesh, and bone. Using a distinctive methodology she calls "feminist rehearsal" to chart the Caribbean's multiple and contradictory accounts of historical events, the author highlights the gendered and emergent connections between art, history, and belonging.