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Island Bodies : Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination / Rosamond S. King.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- King, Rosamond S., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- LGBTQ+ films.
- LGBTQ+ literature.
- Trans people--Caribbean Area.
- Trans people.
- Interracial marriage--Caribbean Area.
- Interracial marriage.
- Caribbean Area--Social conditions.
- Caribbean Area.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (275 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville, Florida : University Press of Florida, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction: From the foreign-local to the Caribglobal
- The Caribbean trans continuum and backhanded re/presentation
- "El secreto abierto": visibility, confirmation, and Caribbean men who desire men
- "This is you": "Invisibility," community, and women who desire women
- "Force-ripe": Caribbean women's sexual agency
- One love? Caribbean men and white women.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8130-4889-3
- OCLC:
- 877772043
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