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    9. "Why Must All Girls Want to be Flag Women?": Postcolonial Sexualities, National Reception, and Caribbean Soca Performance

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Pinto,Samantha (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2010
    Published:
    Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism
    Journal Title Details:
    10(1) : 137-163
    Notes:
    Reads Carnival-related performances in relationship to the colonial and national histories of the circulation of Indian and black women's bodies in Trinidad and Tobago, asking what is at stake in these occupations of genre, form, and performative presence in the latest global scenes of late capitalism (where image and sound, as cultural productions, are always in circulation beyond the scope of the nation, and their own "original" referents).