The Quiet Zone: Caribbean Expressive Cultures and the Feminist Aesthetics of Disturbance - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Petal Kimberly SamuelSeries:Critical Caribbean StudiesPublish date:2/10/2026Pages:220
Language:EnglishPublisher:Rutgers University PressISBN-13:9781978844704ISBN-10:1978844700UPC:9781978844704Book Category:Social Science, Literary Criticism, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Caribbean & Latin American, AestheticsBook Topic:Caribbean & Latin American StudiesSize:9.05 x 6.05 x 0.64 inchesWeight:0.69Product ID:SCZ7VZ97E2
The Quiet Zone: Caribbean Expressive Cultures and the Feminist Aesthetics of Disturbance
A serene beach. The classroom of an elite private school. The still nights in an upscale residential neighborhood. An acclaimed poet with a quiet, dignified mode of address. The sonic etiquette and experience of quiet is integral to each of these scenes. The Quiet Zone examines what the emergence of quiet as an elite aesthetic, privilege, and entitlement means for minoritized people who are often...
Series: Critical Caribbean Studies
Language:EnglishPublisher:Rutgers University PressISBN-13:9781978844704ISBN-10:1978844700UPC:9781978844704Book Category:Social Science, Literary Criticism, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Caribbean & Latin American, AestheticsBook Topic:Caribbean & Latin American StudiesSize:9.05 x 6.05 x 0.64 inchesWeight:0.69Product ID:SCZ7VZ97E2
PETAL KIMBERLY SAMUEL is assistant professor of African, African American and Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her work on African diasporic women's writing, Caribbean feminist and queer literary aesthetics, and Black speculative imagination has appeared in the Journal of West Indian Literature, The Black Scholar, Differences, and Public Books. Her current work...
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
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