Buyers Beware: Insurgency and Consumption in Caribbean Popular Culture

by Patricia Joan Saunders

Book Overview

Buyers Beware offers a new perspective for critical inquiries about the practices of consumption in (and of) Caribbean popular culture. The book revisits commonly accepted representations of the Caribbean from "less respectable" segments of popular culture such as dancehall culture and 'sistah lit' that proudly jettison any aspirations toward middle-class respectability. Treating these pop cultural texts and phenomena with the same critical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813571227
• ISBN13: 9780813571225
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"