04187oam 22006613 450 991083831880332120240222165836.00-8135-7286-X0-8135-7124-310.36019/9780813571249(MiAaPQ)EBC6893888(Au-PeEL)EBL6893888(CKB)21325720400041(DE-B1597)637835(DE-B1597)9780813571249(OCoLC)1302011985(MdBmJHUP)musev2_102457(MiAaPQ)EBC30727768(Au-PeEL)EBL30727768(EXLCZ)992132572040004120220302d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBuyers beware insurgency and consumption in Caribbean popular culture /Patricia Joan Saunders1st ed.New Brunswick :Rutgers University Press,2022.©2022.1 online resource (vii, 225 pages) color illustrationsCritical Caribbean StudiesDescription based upon print version of record.Print version: Saunders, Patricia Joan Buyers Beware New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press,c2022 9780813571232 5. "Outta Order" or "Outta Door?": Caribbean Women Performing Power, Politics, and Sexuality -- 6. Gardening in the Garrisons: (Un)Visibility in Contemporary Caribbean Art -- Conclusion: "Puuulll Uuuuuuup" -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author -- Series TitlesCover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea-Situating Caribbean Pop Culture Globally -- 1. Is Not Everything Good to Eat, Good to Talk: Sexual Economy and Dancehall Music in the Global Marketplace -- 2. Buyers Beware, Hoodwinking on the Rise: Epistemologies of Consumption in "Sistah Lit" -- 3. "Who's on Top?": Power, Pleasure, and the Politics of Taste -- 4. "Fashion ova Style": The Art of Self-Fashioning in Jamaican Pop CultureBuyers Beware offers a new perspective for critical inquiries about the practices of consumption in (and of) Caribbean popular culture. The book revisits commonly accepted representations of the Caribbean from “less respectable” segments of popular culture such as dancehall culture and 'sistah lit' that proudly jettison any aspirations toward middle-class respectability. Treating these pop cultural texts and phenomena with the same critical attention as dominant mass cultural representations of the region allows Patricia Joan Saunders to read them against the grain and consider whether and how their “pulp” preoccupation with contemporary fashion, music, sex, fast food, and television, is instructive for how race, class, gender, sexuality and national politics are constructed, performed, interpreted, disseminated and consumed from within the Caribbean.Critical Caribbean StudiesConsumersCaribbean AreaConsumption (Economics)Social aspectsCaribbean AreaPopular cultureCaribbean AreaSOCIAL SCIENCE / GeneralbisacshCaribbean AreafastCaribbean AreaCivilizationcritical inquiry, shopping, buyer, consumption, Caribbean studies, Caribbean, Caribbean popular culture, pop culture, sistah lit, middle-class, pulp, contemporary fashion, music, sex, fast food, television, race, gender, class, sexuality, national politics, perform, Global Marketplace, Epistemology, Self-Fashioning, Jamaican Pop Culture, Caribbean Women, Contemporary Caribbean Art, Cultural Insurgency.ConsumersConsumption (Economics)Social aspectsPopular cultureSOCIAL SCIENCE / General.339.4/7Saunders Patricia Joan1729361MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910838318803321Buyers beware4139128UNINA