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Caribes 2.0
New Media, Globalization, and the Afterlives of Disaster
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English
Published/Copyright:
2023
About this book
In Caribes 2.0, author Jossianna Arroyo looks at the Caribbean mediasphere in the twenty-first century. Arroyo argues that we have seen a return to tropes such as blackface, brownface, cultural and ethnic stereotypes, and violent representations of the poor, the marginalized, and the racialized. Caribes 2.0 looks at these tropes as well as the work of writers, vloggers, performers, and photographers that have become media figures or have used new media platforms to promote their work and examines how they are challenging and negotiating these media representations. It analyzes contemporary Caribbean cultures to discuss, taste, guides, and actions (social and virtual) that shape Caribbean global communities today. Departing from Edouard Glissant’s insight that “Caribbean reality might not be accessed by remote control” the book considers what types of political and social agencies are created by mediation. Caribes 2.0 deviates from these historical-globalized views of subjected, colonized Caribbean bodies, and their material conditions, to examine the relationship between the local and the global in contemporary Caribbean cultures, and the role that media is playing in the invisibility or hyper-visibilty of Caribbean cultures in the islands and the U.S. diaspora.
Author / Editor information
JOSSIANNA ARROYO is a professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Department of African and African Diaspora at the University of Texas, Austin. She is author of Travestismos culturales: literatura y etnografía en Cuba y Brasil and Writing Secrecy in Caribbean Freemasonry.
Reviews
"A compelling collection for any scholar intrigued by the contemporary media landscape of the Caribbean. [It] offers a deep dive into the mediascapes and media flow within and across the Spanish Caribbean and its diasporas, enriching the reader’s understanding of cultural interplay and communication more generally. Arroyo-Martínez's contribution stands out, too, for its foresight, competently laying the foundation around which future scholars will rally as they navigate the evolving narrative of a Caribes 3.0 engaged with burgeoning technologies like the metaverse and artificial intelligence. In sum, this book is an essential read for anyone invested in the intersection of Caribbean studies and visual culture."— Centro Journal
"Breaks new theoretical and methodological ground in the study of new Latinx media and contemporary Caribbean culture. . . . Arroyo lucidly foregrounds the ways in which the body provides a means of self-affirmation, and alternately, defiance against disaster politics, pushing against racial, class, and gender boundaries. Richly illustrated with color photographs and frame grabs, her book delineates a new zone of media understanding, theorization, and appreciation."— Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures
"Jossianna Arroyo’s Caribes 2.0 brings a variety of understudied sources to light, providing a fruitful addition to media scholarship and Caribbean studies. Most strikingly, her work forms part of a wave of Caribbean scholarship that regards the visual prominence of Black and brown death and precarity in processes of racialization. Caribes 2.0 will prove especially useful to researchers of contemporary Caribbean cultural production and virtual economies."— Film Quarterly
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1 Caribbean Mediascapes: After the Image
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2 Enacting Others: Blackface, Brownface, and Caribbean Selves
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3 Ratchetness and Vlogging the Self
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4 Cities of the Dead: Performing Life in the Caribbean
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5 Indebted Citizenships and Afterlives of Disaster
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Acknowledgments
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Notes
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Works Cited
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Index
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About the Author
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
March 30, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9781978819788
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook ISBN:
9781978819788
Keywords for this book
caribbean; media; pop culture; art; society; globalization; ethnicity; blackface; stereotypes; writers; vloggers; performers; politics
Audience(s) for this book
For universities and colleges of further and higher education
