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Author: Patricia Joan Saunders
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.003kg
ISBN: 9780813571225
ISBN 10: 0813571227
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 13 May 2022
Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years
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College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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This astutely robust comparative analysis of modes of consumption in the contemporary Caribbean and its diaspora situates black popular cultural expressions as a central animating force in our global society. Traversing genres as diverse as dancehall, literature, cinema and visual art, Patricia Saunders masterfully attends to questions of race, gender and sexuality as she traces the myriad ways that Caribbean communities use and consume popular culture to assert their presence, negotiate spaces to perform visibility and articulate their sense of freedom. --Yanique Hume co-editor of Caribbean Popular Culture: Power, Politics and Performance In a profound rethinking of free markets and practices of consumption, Patricia Saunders offers one of the most astute cultural interpretations yet of how the most economically dispossessed not only participate in consumer culture but reshape it for their own ends. Buyer's Beware stunningly shows how 'insurgent cultural representations' can shake the roots of oppression, challenge critical theory, and unsettle the circuits of global capital--while getting the goods. --Mimi Sheller author of Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies With roving curiosity, Patricia J. Saunders unpacks some of the many contradictions of popular culture, taste-making, and money-spending in and around contemporary black diasporic culture. By focusing her attention not solely on how the Caribbean is consumed (which it is, aggressively), but on how Caribbean consumers and makers act as complicated agents within this context, Buyers Beware gives a particular vantage by which to consider the region in contemporary global markets. --Nadia Ellis author of Territories of the Soul: Queered Belonging in the Black Diaspora
"""This astutely robust comparative analysis of modes of consumption in the contemporary Caribbean and its diaspora situates black popular cultural expressions as a central animating force in our global society. Traversing genres as diverse as dancehall, literature, cinema and visual art, Patricia Saunders masterfully attends to questions of race, gender and sexuality as she traces the myriad ways that Caribbean communities use and consume popular culture to assert their presence, negotiate spaces to perform visibility and articulate their sense of freedom.""--Yanique Hume ""co-editor of Caribbean Popular Culture: Power, Politics and Performance"" ""In a profound rethinking of free markets and practices of consumption, Patricia Saunders offers one of the most astute cultural interpretations yet of how the most economically dispossessed not only participate in consumer culture but reshape it for their own ends. Buyers Beware stunningly shows how 'insurgent cultural representations' can shake the roots of oppression, challenge critical theory, and unsettle the circuits of global capital--while getting the goods.""--Mimi Sheller ""author of Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies"" ""With roving curiosity, Patricia J. Saunders unpacks some of the many contradictions of popular culture, taste-making, and money-spending in and around contemporary black diasporic culture. By focusing her attention not solely on how the Caribbean is consumed (which it is, aggressively), but on how Caribbean consumers and makers act as complicated agents within this context, Buyers Beware gives a particular vantage by which to consider the region in contemporary global markets.""--Nadia Ellis ""author of Territories of the Soul: Queered Belonging in the Black Diaspora"""
This astutely robust comparative analysis of modes of consumption in the contemporary Caribbean and its diaspora situates black popular cultural expressions as a central animating force in our global society. Traversing genres as diverse as dancehall, literature, cinema and visual art, Patricia Saunders masterfully attends to questions of race, gender and sexuality as she traces the myriad ways that Caribbean communities use and consume popular culture to assert their presence, negotiate spaces to perform visibility and articulate their sense of freedom. --Yanique Hume co-editor of Caribbean Popular Culture: Power, Politics and Performance In a profound rethinking of free markets and practices of consumption, Patricia Saunders offers one of the most astute cultural interpretations yet of how the most economically dispossessed not only participate in consumer culture but reshape it for their own ends. Buyers Beware stunningly shows how 'insurgent cultural representations' can shake the roots of oppression, challenge critical theory, and unsettle the circuits of global capital--while getting the goods. --Mimi Sheller author of Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies With roving curiosity, Patricia J. Saunders unpacks some of the many contradictions of popular culture, taste-making, and money-spending in and around contemporary black diasporic culture. By focusing her attention not solely on how the Caribbean is consumed (which it is, aggressively), but on how Caribbean consumers and makers act as complicated agents within this context, Buyers Beware gives a particular vantage by which to consider the region in contemporary global markets. --Nadia Ellis author of Territories of the Soul: Queered Belonging in the Black Diaspora
This astutely robust comparative analysis of modes of consumption in the contemporary Caribbean and its diaspora situates black popular cultural expressions as a central animating force in our global society. Traversing genres as diverse as dancehall, literature, cinema and visual art, Patricia Saunders masterfully attends to questions of race, gender and sexuality as she traces the myriad ways that Caribbean communities use and consume popular culture to assert their presence, negotiate spaces to perform visibility and articulate their sense of freedom. --Yanique Hume co-editor of Caribbean Popular Culture: Power, Politics and Performance In a profound rethinking of free markets and practices of consumption, Patricia Saunders offers one of the most astute cultural interpretations yet of how the most economically dispossessed not only participate in consumer culture but reshape it for their own ends. Buyer's Beware stunningly shows how 'insurgent cultural representations' can shake the roots of oppression, challenge critical theory, and unsettle the circuits of global capital--while getting the goods. --Mimi Sheller author of Consuming the Caribbean
"“In a profound rethinking of free markets and practices of consumption, Patricia Saunders offers one of the most astute cultural interpretations yet of how the most economically dispossessed not only participate in consumer culture but reshape it for their own ends. Buyers Beware stunningly shows how ‘insurgent cultural representations’ can shake the roots of oppression, challenge critical theory, and unsettle the circuits of global capital—while getting the goods.” -- Mimi Sheller * author of Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies * ""This astutely robust comparative analysis of modes of consumption in the contemporary Caribbean and its diaspora situates black popular cultural expressions as a central animating force in our global society. Traversing genres as diverse as dancehall, literature, cinema and visual art, Patricia Saunders masterfully attends to questions of race, gender and sexuality as she traces the myriad ways that Caribbean communities use and consume popular culture to assert their presence, negotiate spaces to perform visibility and articulate their sense of freedom."" -- Yanique Hume * co-editor of Caribbean Popular Culture: Power, Politics and Performance * ""With roving curiosity, Patricia J. Saunders unpacks some of the many contradictions of popular culture, taste-making, and money-spending in and around contemporary black diasporic culture. By focusing her attention not solely on how the Caribbean is consumed (which it is, aggressively), but on how Caribbean consumers and makers act as complicated agents within this context, Buyers Beware gives a particular vantage by which to consider the region in contemporary global markets."" -- Nadia Ellis * author of Territories of the Soul: Queered Belonging in the Black Diaspora * “In a profound rethinking of free markets and practices of consumption, Patricia Saunders offers one of the most astute cultural interpretations yet of how the most economically dispossessed not only participate in consumer culture but reshape it for their own ends. Buyers Beware stunningly shows how ‘insurgent cultural representations’ can shake the roots of oppression, challenge critical theory, and unsettle the circuits of global capital—while getting the goods.” -- Mimi Sheller * author of Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies * ""This astutely robust comparative analysis of modes of consumption in the contemporary Caribbean and its diaspora situates black popular cultural expressions as a central animating force in our global society. Traversing genres as diverse as dancehall, literature, cinema and visual art, Patricia Saunders masterfully attends to questions of race, gender and sexuality as she traces the myriad ways that Caribbean communities use and consume popular culture to assert their presence, negotiate spaces to perform visibility and articulate their sense of freedom."" -- Yanique Hume * co-editor of Caribbean Popular Culture: Power, Politics and Performance * ""With roving curiosity, Patricia J. Saunders unpacks some of the many contradictions of popular culture, taste-making, and money-spending in and around contemporary black diasporic culture. By focusing her attention not solely on how the Caribbean is consumed (which it is, aggressively), but on how Caribbean consumers and makers act as complicated agents within this context, Buyers Beware gives a particular vantage by which to consider the region in contemporary global markets."" -- Nadia Ellis * author of Territories of the Soul: Queered Belonging in the Black Diaspora *"
Author Information
PATRICIA JOAN SAUNDERS is an associate professor of English at the University of Miami and a senior editor of Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal. She is the author of Alienation and Repatriation: Translating Identity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature.
