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Caribes 2. 0 : new media, globalization and the afterlives of disaster / Jossianna Arroyo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arroyo, Jossianna, author.
- Series:
- Global Media and Race
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture--Caribbean Area.
- Popular culture.
- Caribbean Area--Civilization--21st century.
- Caribbean Area.
- Caribbean Area--In mass media.
- Caribbean Area--In popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (199 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- In Caribes 2.0, author Jossianna Arroyo looks at the Caribbean mediasphere in the twenty-first century. Arroyo argues that we have seen a return to tropes such as blackface, brownface, cultural and ethnic stereotypes, and violent representations of the poor, the marginalized, and the racialized. Caribes 2.0 looks at these tropes as well as the work of writers, vloggers, performers, and photographers that have become media figures or have used new media platforms to promote their work and examines how they are challenging and negotiating these media representations. It analyzes contemporary Caribbean cultures to discuss, taste, guides, and actions (social and virtual) that shape Caribbean global communities today. Departing from Edouard Glissant’s insight that “Caribbean reality might not be accessed by remote control” the book considers what types of political and social agencies are created by mediation. Caribes 2.0 deviates from these historical-globalized views of subjected, colonized Caribbean bodies, and their material conditions, to examine the relationship between the local and the global in contemporary Caribbean cultures, and the role that media is playing in the invisibility or hyper-visibilty of Caribbean cultures in the islands and the U.S. diaspora.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- 1. Caribbean Mediascapes: After the Image
- 2. Enacting Others: Blackface, Brownface, and Caribbean Selves
- 3. Ratchetness and Vlogging the Self
- 4. Cities of the Dead: Performing Life in the Caribbean
- 5. Indebted Citizenships and Afterlives of Disaster
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-9788-1976-5
- 1-9788-1978-1
- OCLC:
- 1369648810
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