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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Lia T. BascombPublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.472kg ISBN: 9781978803954ISBN 10: 1978803958 Pages: 306 Publication Date: 13 December 2019 Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Images Introduction 1 England’s Child, the People’s Nation: Myths of Barbadian National Identity 2 Performing National Identity 3 Caribbean Queen: Afro-Barbadian Femininity, Alison Hinds, and Performing of the Erotic at Home and Abroad 4 “Love You All”: Rupee, Afro-Barbadian Masculinity, Activism, and the Temptations of a Global Pop Market 5 Rihanna, Where Celebrity and Tourism Meet in a Dangerous Crossroads of Representation Conclusion: Celebrating Barbadian Independence, the Golden Jubilee Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited IndexReviewsA refreshingly vital work! As Barbados flexes its stance, situating itself in the contemporary world, Lia T. Bascomb provides one of the most engaging and enlightening published discussions on the meanings of this process. In Plenty and in Time of Need will be a go-to text for many years. --Curwen Best author of The Popular Music and Entertainment Culture of Barbados: Pathways to Digital Culture Lia Bascomb's In Plenty and In Time of Need is a necessary and powerful remix of performance studies, diaspora studies, studies of the nation, studies of migration and popular culture. Her remixes of critical theory, Caribbean intellectual traditions, discourses of the nation, post-independence and postcolonial conditions, along with gender and sexuality provide a powerful account of contemporary Black diasporic connection and performativity located in the geopolitics of Barbados but exceeding the geography of that place to reorient our thinking on the global flows of people, cultures and power. --Rinaldo Walcott author of Queer Returns: Essays on Multiculturalism, Diaspora, and Black Studies A refreshingly vital work! As Barbados flexes its stance, situating itself in the contemporary world, Lia T. Bascomb provides one of the most engaging and enlightening published discussions on the meanings of this process. In Plenty and in Time of Need will be a go-to text for many years. Lia Bascomb's In Plenty and In Time of Need is a necessary and powerful remix of performance studies, diaspora studies, studies of the nation, studies of migration and popular culture. Her remixes of critical theory, Caribbean intellectual traditions, discourses of the nation, post-independence and postcolonial conditions, along with gender and sexuality provide a powerful account of contemporary Black diasporic connection and performativity located in the geopolitics of Barbados but exceeding the geography of that place to reorient our thinking on the global flows of people, cultures and power. "“Lia Bascomb’s In Plenty and In Time of Need is a necessary and powerful remix of performance studies, diaspora studies, studies of the nation, studies of migration and popular culture. Her remixes of critical theory, Caribbean intellectual traditions, discourses of the nation, post-independence and postcolonial conditions, along with gender and sexuality provide a powerful account of contemporary Black diasporic connection and performativity located in the geopolitics of Barbados but exceeding the geography of that place to reorient our thinking on the global flows of people, cultures and power.”— Rinaldo Walcott, author of Queer Returns: Essays on Multiculturalism, Diaspora, and Black Studies “A refreshingly vital work! As Barbados flexes its stance, situating itself in the contemporary world, Lia T. Bascomb provides one of the most engaging and enlightening published discussions on the meanings of this process. In Plenty and in Time of Need will be a go-to text for many years.”— Curwen Best, author of The Popular Music and Entertainment Culture of Barbados: Pathways to Digital Culture ""This text is a well-conceived and articulated discussion of the ways in which history intertwine with contemporary cultural performances to construct a national identity. For Bascomb, this exchange takes place in a political arena where not only the personal is political but the political is often symbolic and immaterial."" — Hunter H. Fine, Communication Booknotes Quarterly" Author InformationLia T. Bascomb is an assistant professor of African American Studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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