Description: 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 wh...
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"Gladys M. Francis's Odious Caribbean Women and the Palpable Aesthetics of Transgression is a fascinating, pioneering study. Applying her theory of 'corpomemorial tracing, ' she analyzes texts by literary, visual, and performance artists-novelists, playwrights, poets, filmmakers, painters, and dancers-, demonstrating her expertise and contributing new insight into several disciplines. This excellent, interdisciplinary work is essential reading for scholars of the French Caribbean, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Body Studies." --Renée Larrier, Rutgers University
"To scholars and students interested in alternative processes of memory, history, and identity within the Caribbean, this new work will be a fruitful resource. It contributes important tools and perspectives for exploring visual arts and writing as extensions of the body that performs memory in tandem with, but in many ways in contrast to, the official archive. It thus furthers our possibilities for relating with complex, ongoing negotiations of Caribbean female identities." --Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature