01818oam 2200421z- 450 991096095400332120210111172905.01-4985-4351-0(CKB)3710000001391202(MiAaPQ)EBC4884231(BIP)059546918(VLeBooks)9781498543514(EXLCZ)99371000000139120220171113c2017uuuu -u- -engur|||||||||||Odious Caribbean Women and the Palpable Aesthetics of TransgressionLexington Books1 online resource (190 p.) 1-4985-4350-2 Introduction -- Cultural politics, ekphrases writing of resistance, and sensorial aesthetics -- Meaning making of embodied performatic repertoire -- Aesthetics of pain: embodied poetics of negation -- Transgression in pleasure, desire, and gender -- Conclusion.This text centers on visual and literary productions of Francophone Caribbean women. It investigates their aesthetics of violence, pain, the abhorrent, and the 'uglification' of the feminine to unravel what makes them transgressive and uncommodifiable. It probes the ways in which these works destroy the regimentation of the 'ideal' body.ArtsCaribbean literature (French)Human body in literaturePain in literatureWomen authorsArts.Caribbean literature (French)Human body in literature.Pain in literature.Women authors.840.9928709729Francis Gladys M1853982BOOK9910960954003321Odious Caribbean Women and the Palpable Aesthetics of Transgression4450949UNINA