Description: Buyers Beware treats Caribbean pop cultural texts with the same critical attention as dominant mass cultural representations of the region to read them against the grain and consider how, and whether, their "pulp" preoccupation with contemporary fashion, music, sex, fast food, and television, is instructive for how race, class, gender, sexuality, and national politics are disseminated and consumed within the Caribbean.
Review Quotes: "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. Buyers Beware 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."--Mimi Sheller "author of Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies"