Patricia Saunders not too long ago celebrated the launch of her new guide Consumers Beware: Insurgency and Consumption in Caribbean Fashionable Tradition (Rutgers College press) on the Trinidad & Tobago Writers Centre in St. Clair, Port-of-Spain. Concerning the guide, Mimi Sheller (writer of Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies) writes: “In a profound rethinking of free markets and practices of consumption, Patricia Saunders provides some of the astute cultural interpretations but of how essentially the most economically dispossessed not solely take part in shopper tradition however reshape it for their very own ends. Consumers Beware stunningly exhibits how ‘rebel cultural representations’ can shake the roots of oppression, problem important principle, and unsettle the circuits of worldwide capital—whereas getting the products.”
Description: Consumers Beware provides a brand new perspective for important inquiries concerning the practices of consumption in (and of) Caribbean well-liked tradition. The guide revisits generally accepted representations of the Caribbean from “much less respectable” segments of well-liked tradition resembling dancehall tradition and ‘sistah lit’ that proudly jettison any aspirations towards middle-class respectability. Treating these pop cultural texts and phenomena with the identical important consideration as dominant mass cultural representations of the area permits Patricia Joan Saunders to learn them towards the grain and think about whether or not and the way their “pulp” preoccupation with up to date trend, music, intercourse, quick meals, and tv, is instructive for the way race, class, gender, sexuality and nationwide politics are constructed, carried out, interpreted, disseminated and consumed from inside the Caribbean.
PATRICIA JOAN SAUNDERS is an affiliate professor of English on the College of Miami and a senior editor of Anthurium: A Caribbean Research Journal. She is the writer of Alienation and Repatriation: Translating Id in Anglophone Caribbean Literature.
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