Odious Caribbean Women and the Palpable Aesthetics of Transgression (eBook)

Gladys M. Francis (Autor)

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2017
180 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-4351-4 (ISBN)

Infos

This book 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.

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Odious Caribbean Women and the Palpable Aesthetics of Transgression examines the methods through which the works of French Caribbean women resist hedonistic conceptions of pleasure, "e;art for art's sake"e; aestheticism, and commodification through representations of "e;uglified"e; spaces, transgressive "e;deglamorified"e; women's bodies in pain and explicit corporeal and sexual behaviors. Gladys M. Francis offers an original approach through her reading together of the literary, visual, and performing arts (as well as traditional Caribbean dance, music, and oral practices) to arrive at a transregional (trans-Caribbean and transatlantic), trans-genre (with regard to forms of text), and transdisciplinary conversation in Francophone studies, postcolonial studies, and cultural studies. This interweaving is illustrated through the artistic engagements of artists such as Ina Cesaire, Maryse Conde, Sylvaine Dampierre, Fabienne Kanor, Lenablou, Beatrice Melina, Gisele Pineau, Simone Schwarz-Bart, and Miriam Warner-Vieyra. How can we investigate, theoretically or critically, the aesthetically unpleasing found in depictions of odious female protagonists or female performers? What is the aesthetic value of transgressional women's bodies? This book presents novel tools to understand how these women artists mark and re-instate embodied trauma, survival, and resistance into history. It posits that cultural performances can disrupt a culture-as-text ethnocentrism, for, these works provide the means to expose the tangible aesthetics through which the body becomes an archive that bears the psychological, physical and structural suffering. This project also demonstrates the ways through which the corporeal realm offered by these transgressive works (through explicit female perspectives on sex, love, and gender) challenges our moral sensibilities, works to sabotage the voyeuristic gaze, and stimulates a new methodology for reading the women's body. It focuses on the complex layers of identity formation and bodily representations with respect to issues of sex, consumerism, commodification, violence, gender and women studies, and ethics and moral issues.

Autor

Gladys M. Francis is assistant professor of French and Francophone studies at Georgia State University.

Inhalt

IntroductionChapter 1 - Cultural Politics, Ekphrases Writing of Resistance, and Sensorial AestheticsChapter 2 - Meaning Making of Embodied Performatic Repertoire Chapter 3 - Aesthetics of Pain: Embodied Poetics of negationChapter 4 - Transgression in Pleasure, Desire, and GenderConclusion

Produkt-Details

• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: African diaspora • Caribbean Aesthetics • caribbean artists • Caribbean Critical Thought • Caribbean Dance • Caribbean Music • Caribbean trauma • Caribbean violence • Caribbean Writing • Consumerism • ethical politics • Francophone Caribbean Writing • moral politics • Representations of women • Sexuality • Shock-trend • Transgression
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-4351-0 / 1498543510
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-4351-4 / 9781498543514