Island bodies
Subtitle: transgressive sexualities in the Caribbean imagination
By: Rosamond S. King
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780813049809; 9780813062068
Subjects: Homosexuality; Homosexuality and music; Sexual minorities; Homosexuality and motion pictures; Interracial marriage; Transgender people; Homosexuality and literature; Social conditions
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-250) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: From the foreign-local to the Caribglobal; title: The Caribbean trans continuum and backhanded re/presentation; title: "El secreto abierto": visibility, confirmation, and Caribbean men who desire men; title: "This is you": "Invisibility, " community, and women who desire women; title: "Force-ripe": Caribbean women's sexual agency; title: One love? Caribbean men and white women.