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Caribbean Fashion Week: Remodeling Beauty in “Out of Many One” Jamaica

Carolyn Cooper Carolyn Cooper is Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. She is the author of two influential books: Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large (2004) and Noises in the Blood: Orality, Gender and the ‘Vulgar’ Body of Jamaican Popular Culture (1993). [email protected]
Pages 387-404 | Published online: 21 Apr 2015

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