LEADER 03629nam 22005414a 450 001 9910971547303321 005 20251117083113.0 010 $a1-282-59767-1 010 $a9786612597671 010 $a0-472-02574-0 035 $a(CKB)2520000000006867 035 $a(OCoLC)593295444 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10371917 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000415267 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11296667 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000415267 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10410686 035 $a(PQKB)11469561 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3414680 035 $a(BIP)46255067 035 $a(BIP)12654289 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000006867 100 $a20060130d2006 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCultural conundrums $egender, race, nation, and the making of Caribbean cultural politics /$fNatasha Barnes 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAnn Arbor $cUniversity of Michigan Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (233 p.) 300 $a"Portions of the chapters in this book originally appeared in other publications, in earlier versions, and under previous titles"--Acknowledgments. 311 08$a0-472-06939-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 185-210) and index. 327 $aGender and Caribbean play -- The utopic popular -- The dystopic popular -- Reluctant matriarch. 330 $aCultural Conundrums investigates the passions of race, gender, and national identity that make culture a continually embattled public sphere in the Anglophone Caribbean today. Academics, journalists, and ordinary citizens have weighed in on the ideological meanings to be found in the minutiae of cultural life, from the use of skin-bleaching agents in the beauty rituals of working-class Jamaican women to the rise of sexually suggestive costumes in Trinidads Carnival. Natasha Barnes traces the use of cultural arguments in the making of Caribbean modernity, looking at the cultural performances of the Anglophone Caribbeancricket, carnival, dancehall, calypso, and beauty pageantsand their major literary portrayals. Barnes historicizes the problematic linkage of culture and nation to argue that Caribbean anticolonialism has given expressive culture a critical place in the regions identity politics. Her provocative readings of foundational thinkers C. L. R. James and Sylvia Winters will engender discussion and debate among the Caribbean intellectual community. This impressively interdisciplinary study will make important contributions to the fields of Afro-diaspora studies, postcolonial studies, literary studies, performance studies, and sociology. Postcolonial cultural criticism is celebrated for its mastery of generalization and condemned for its inability to historicize. Cultural Conundrums is unique in its ability to find a middle ground. It touches on some of the most important and contentious issues in the field. This book will account for why it was in those small islands that what we now call cultural studies was invented. --Simon Gikandi, Princeton University Natasha Barnes is Associate Professor of African American Studies and English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. 607 $aCaribbean Area$xSocial conditions 607 $aCaribbean Area$xRace relations 676 $a305.48/8009729 700 $aBarnes$b Natasha$01861826 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910971547303321 996 $aCultural conundrums$94468039 997 $aUNINA