Name: The Quiet Zone. Caribbean Expressive Cultures and the Feminist Aesthetics of Disturbance
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Author: Petal Kimberly Samuel
ISBN: 9781978844711

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The Quiet Zone. Caribbean Expressive Cultures and the Feminist Aesthetics of Disturbance

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Rutgers University Press

Author

Petal Kimberly Samuel

Collection

Critical Caribbean Studies

Year

2026

Pages

220

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.90 x 15.20 cm

ISBN13

9781978844711

The Quiet Zone. Caribbean Expressive Cultures and the Feminist Aesthetics of Disturbance

Petal Kimberly Samuel (Author) · Rutgers University Press · Hardcover

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Synopsis "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 narrated as loud, disruptive, and disturbing, sonically, visually, and otherwise. Taking the Caribbean and its diasporas as its key sites of study, the book explores what we can learn from efforts to transform the region into the quintessential site of quiet leisure, in part, through the enactment of regimes of sonic discipline and surveillance directed against its majority Black population. Analyzing the work of Afro-Caribbean artists that catalog and critique sonic surveillance, the book questions the ways that quiet gets produced both as a regulatory ideal of racial, gender, sexual, national, and civilizational belonging and as a universal object of desire