Accessories/Accessaries; or, What's in Your Closet
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4865076 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Petrine Archer (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 97-110 |
| Publication date | 2010-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Small Axe A Caribbean Journal of Criticism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1534-6714 • E-ISSN: 0799-0537 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/07990537-2010-007 |
| OpenAlex | W1967649919 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 9 |
This article explores the repeating patterns of the subordinate colonial relationship using a handful of pictures that make links between slavery, pageantry, racial uplift, Jamaica's dancehall culture, and dress. Through a truncated discussion about the body, emasculation, clothing, and race, it offers a narrative about postemancipation Jamaican males that looks beneath their masks to suggest how legacies of slavery are being played out through them in dynamic and queer ways. Jamaica's history is one that has always called for the Janus-faced accessory: a dressing up ritual to disguise the subaltern and the transgressive. After two hundred years of masquarades and street performances—a history that spans from Belisario to Beenie Man—it is time to ask the question, what's in your closet
Aesthetics · Art · Closet · Clothing · Colonialism · Emasculation · Gossip · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Queer · Race (biology · Sociology · Subaltern · Transgressive · White (mutation · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Cuban History and Society · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2021 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |