cross-gender fabrications in the francophone Caribbean
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Hammond, Charlotte
- Publish Year
- 2018
- Shelfmark
- LAT 1A 2018 - B
- Thesaurus
- literatuur, cultuur, theater, populaire cultuur, kolonialisme, slavernij, travestie, etniciteit, Caraïbisch gebied, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- This book 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.