{"product_id":"island-bodies-transgressive-sexualities-in-the-caribbean-imagination-paperback","title":"Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRosamond S. King\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eIsland Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e, Rosamond King examines sexualities, violence, and repression in the Caribbean experience. She analyzes the sexual norms and expectations portrayed in Caribbean and diaspora literature, music, film, and popular culture to show how many individuals contest traditional roles by maneuvering within and\/or trying to change their society's binary gender systems. She skillfully demonstrates that these transgressions better represent Caribbean culture than the \"official\" representations perpetuated by governmental elites and often codified into laws that reinforce patriarchal, heterosexual stereotypes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnique in its breadth and its multilingual and multidisciplinary approach, \u003ci\u003eIsland Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e addresses homosexuality, interracial relations, transgender people, and women's sexual agency in Dutch, Francophone, Anglophone, and Hispanophone works of Caribbean literature. Additionally, King explores the paradoxical nature of sexuality across the region: discussing sexuality in public is often considered taboo, yet the tourism economy trades on portraying Caribbean residents as hypersexualized.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUltimately King reveals that despite the varied national specificity, differing colonial legacies, and linguistic diversity across the islands, there are striking similarities in the ways Caribglobal cultures attempt to restrict sexuality and in the ways individuals explore and transgress those boundaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRosamond S. King\u003c\/b\u003e is assistant professor of English at Brooklyn College and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eTheorizing Homophobias in the Caribbean: Complexities of Place, Desire, and Belonging\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.62 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 07, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53344372621619,"sku":"9780813062068","price":47.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/elBSU-fhUh9780813062068.webp?v=1778725259","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/island-bodies-transgressive-sexualities-in-the-caribbean-imagination-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}