Odious Caribbean Women and the Palpable Aesthetics of Transgression

• Autore: Francis Gladys M
• Pubblicazione: Lexington Books
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (190 p.)
• Disciplina: 840.9928709729
• Soggetto topico: Arts; Caribbean literature (French); Human body in literature; Pain in literature; Women authors
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Odious Caribbean women and the palpable aesthetics of transgression
• ISBN: 1-4985-4351-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826519203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II