Sexual Feelings Reading Anglophone Caribbean Women's Writing Through Affect
| Other author | Valovirta, Elina |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Amsterdam : Rodopi B.V. Editions |
| Description | 225 p. 22.000 x 015.000 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Series | Cross/Cultures Ser. Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English Vol. 174 |
| Summary | Annotation The present book offers a reader-theoretical model for approaching anglophone Caribbean women's writing through affects, emotions, and feelings related to sexuality, a prominent theme in the literary tradition. How does an affective framework help us read this tradition of writing that is so preoccupied with sexual feelings? The novelists discussed in the book - chiefly Erna Brodber, Opal Palmer Adisa, Edwidge Danticat, Shani Mootoo, and Oonya Kempadoo - are representative of various anglophone Caribbean island cultures and English-speaking back-grounds. The study makes astute use of the theoretical writings of such scholars as Sara Ahmed, Milton J. Bennett, Sue Campbell, Linden Lewis, Evelyn O'Callaghan, Lizabeth Paravisini - Gebert, Lynne Pearce, Elspeth Probyn, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Rei Terada, as well as the critical writings of Adisa, Brodber, Kempadoo, to shape an individual, focused argument. The works of the creative artists treated, and this volume, hold sexuality and emo-tions to be vital for meaning-production and knowledge-negotiation across diffe-rences (be they culturally, geographi-cally or otherwise marked) that chal-lenge the postcolonial reading process. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9789042038608 |
| ISBN | 9042038608 (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9789042038608 |
| Stock number | 00612877 |
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