Queen of the Virgins Pageantry and Black Womanhood in the Caribbean【電子書籍】[ M. Cynthia Oliver ]

＜p＞Beauty pageants are wildly popular in the U.S. Virgin Islands, outnumbering any other single performance event and capturing the attention of the local people from toddlers to seniors. Local beauty contests provide women opportunities to demonstrate talent, style, the values of black womanhood, and the territory's social mores.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Queen of the Virgins: Pageantry and Black Womanhood in the Caribbean＜/em＞ is a comprehensive look at the centuries-old tradition of these expressions in the Virgin Islands. M. Cynthia Oliver maps the trajectory of pageantry from its colonial precursors at tea meetings, dance dramas, and street festival parades to its current incarnation as the beauty pageant or "queen show." For the author, pageantry becomes a lens through which to view the region's understanding of gender, race, sexuality, class, and colonial power.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Focusing on the queen show, Oliver reveals its twin roots in slave celebrations that parodied white colonial behavior and crea．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る