Free Up Yuhself : Transgressive Bodies and Contestations in the Carnivalesque / Judy Grant, Rosamond S King, Darrell Gerohn Baksh, Angelique V Nixon, Kai Barratt, Ryan Persadie, Sue Ann Barratt, Nikoli A. Attai, Thomas Haskell, Nikoli A. Attai, Sue Ann Barratt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Attai, Nikoli A.

Series:

Critical Caribbean Studies

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (189 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2026.

Summary:

Free Up Yuhself explores and theorizes what it means to embody and be empowered by the chaos of transgression, evaluating the implications for people who destabilize the Caribbean region's dominant gender and sexuality politics within the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Introduction: Contentious Freedom: Vexed Bodies, Transgression, and Meaning Making/Remaking in the Caribbean Carnivalesque/ Nikoli A. Attai and Sue Ann Barratt

1. Slackness as Resistance: A Loose Examination of Nine Mornings, a Vincy Festival at Dawn: Judy J. Grant

2. Nonresistant Agency in Caribbean and South African Cross-Dressing Masquerades: Rosamond S. King

3. "Ramsingh Sharma, de Village Ram from Saah-Waah": Interrogating Chutney Soca Masculinities in Trinidad: Darrell Gerohn Baksh

4. "Take Back de Wine": Women's Sexual and Erotic Power in Carnival Space: Angelique V. Nixon

5. Destra versus Lucy: Multiple Meanings and Multiple Identities in the Performance of Soca Music: Kai Barratt

6. Transgressing Creolization: Queer Indo-Caribbean Masculinities, Creole Femininities, and the Politics of Belonging in the Toronto Queer Fête: Ryan Persadie

7. "Nothing Else Matters": Men's Transgressive Selves in the Trinidad Carnival Space: Sue Ann Barratt

8. Look de Band Coming!: Transgressive Freedom in Trinidad's Bullerman Carnival: Nikoli A. Attai

9. Mas'Queer'Raider: Traversing Intersections of Caribbean Identity Through Subversion: Thomas Haskell

Afterword: Realms of Fluidity and Challenge: Nikoli A. Attai and Sue Ann Barratt

Notes on Contributors

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Attai, Nikoli A. Free up Yuhself

ISBN:

9781978846623

OCLC:

1594452963