{"product_id":"9780813049809","title":"Island Bodies : Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Island Bodies, Rosamond King examines sexualities, violence, and repression in the Caribbean experience. She analyses the sexual norms and expectations portrayed in Caribbean and diaspora litera¬ture, music, film, and popular culture to show how many individuals contest traditional roles by manoeuvring within and\/or trying to change their society's binary gender systems. She skilfully demon¬strates that these transgressions better represent Caribbean culture than the \"official\" representations perpetuated by governmental elites and often codified into laws that reinforce patriarchal, hetero¬sexual stereotypes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUnique in its breadth and its multilingual and multidisciplinary approach, Island Bodies addresses homosexuality, interracial rela¬tions, transgender people, and women's sexual agency in Dutch, Francophone, Anglophone, and Hispanophone works of Caribbean literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUltimately King reveals that despite the varied national specificity, differing colonial legacies, and linguistic diversity across the islands, there are striking similarities in the ways Caribglobal cultures at¬tempt to restrict sexuality and in the ways individuals explore and transgress those boundaries.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Florida","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42763332386891,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":2672.21,"currency_code":"THB","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0641\/0023\/7387\/files\/9780813049809-1.jpg?v=1783360391","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.co.th\/products\/9780813049809","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Thailand","version":"1.0","type":"link"}