{"product_id":"buyers-beware-insurgency-and-consumption-in-caribbean-popular-culture-hardback-9780813571232","title":"Buyers Beware; Insurgency and Consumption in Caribbean Popular Culture (Hardback) 9780813571232","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBuyers Beware\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eInsurgency and Consumption in Caribbean Popular Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePatricia Joan Saunders (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813571232\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 May 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages, 25 color images\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 2 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Yanique Hume, co-editor of Caribbean Popular Culture: Power, Politics and Performance\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"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, \u003ci\u003eBuyers Beware\u003c\/i\u003e gives a particular vantage by which to consider the region in contemporary global markets.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Nadia Ellis, author of Territories of the Soul: Queered Belonging in the Black Diaspora\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"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. \u003ci\u003eBuyers Beware\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Mimi Sheller, author of Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eBuyers Beware\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ewithin\u003c\/i\u003e the Caribbean.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIntroduction: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Situating Caribbean Pop Culture Globally\u003cbr\u003e Chapter One: Is not Everything Good to Eat, Good to Talk: Sexual Economy and Dancehall Music in the Global Marketplace\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Two: Buyers Beware, Hoodwinking on the Rise: Epistemologies of Consumption in \"Sistah Lit\"\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Three: \"Who's On Top?\": Power, Pleasure and the Politics of Taste\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Four: \"Fashion Ova Style\" The Art of Self-Fashioning in Jamaican Pop Culture\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Five: \"'Outta Order'or Outta Door?: Caribbean Women Performing Power, Politics \u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e Sexuality\"\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Six: Gardening in the Garrisons, (Un)Visibility in Contemporary Caribbean Art\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: 'Puuulll Uuuuuuup:' Dissident Dreams of Cultural Insurgency\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559350890776,"sku":"9780813571232","price":123.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/buyers-beware-insurgency-and-consumption-in-caribbean-popular-culture-hardback-9780813571232","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}