Entangled Otherness

Cross-gender Fabrications in the Francophone Caribbean

AvCharlotte Hammond

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Entangled Otherness explores the dynamics of cross-dressing and gender performance in contemporary francophone Caribbean cultures through a range of visual and textual media. Original in its comparative focus on the islands of Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe and their diasporic communities in France, this study reveals how opaque strategies of crossing, mimicry and masquerade have enabled resistance to the racialised, gendered and patriarchal classifications of bodies that characterized Enlightenment thought during the French transatlantic slave trade. It engages with archival texts of pre-revolutionary Haiti to offer a historical understanding of current constructions of Caribbean gender most influenced by French colonial legacies. The author argues that cross-dressing, as a form of ‘self-fabrication’, complicates inherently entangled colonial binaries of identity and resists France’s paternalistic gaze. The book’s multidisciplinary approach to gender analysis weaves a dialogue between cross-cultural voices garnered from textual and historical analysis, ethnographic interviews and theoretical insight to foreground the continued need to decolonize Eurocentric readings of gender identity in the francophone and creolophone islands, and the Caribbean region more generally. Works of art, film, photography, carnival, performance, and dress, including depictions of fluid identities in the binary-resistant Afro-Creole religion of Vodou, are examined using contemporary performance, gender and social theory from within the region. Entangled Otherness thus makes a unique and timely contribution to the growing body of knowledge and debate in the areas of gender, sexuality and the body in Caribbean Studies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-09-01
Mått:156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:414 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Liverpool University Press
ISBN:9781800855892

Utforska kategorier

Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria inom Historia och arkeologi
Slaveri inom Historia och arkeologi
Konstböcker inom Kultur

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Charlotte Hammond is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Cardiff University.

Recensioner i media

Reviews'Hammond weaves (if I might permit myself such a metaphor) an elaborate web of connections that create a network, indeed a mapping, of the various intersectionalities under consideration. Rather than overworking a wordplay that might seem to lack a correspondingly rich conceptual content, this semantic wealth instead matches the intricacy of the book’s readings and theorizations.'Jarrod Hayes, Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies

Innehållsförteckning

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSA NOTE ON TRANSLATIONSINTRODUCTIONCHAPTER ONE: Costuming Colonial Resistance in the New WorldCHAPTER TWO: Fanmi se dra: Cross-gender Fabrications of Identity in Des hommes et des dieuxCHAPTER THREE: Visual Détours: Refracting the Blan Female Gaze in Haitian VodouCHAPTER FOUR: Spectatorial TravestismeCHAPTER FIVE: Dressed to Kill: Opacity and Masquerade in Claire Denis’s J’ai pas sommeilCONCLUSION: Past Scripts, Future VisionsWORKS CITED

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