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Sexual Feelings: Reading Anglophone Caribbean Women’s Writing Through Affect: Cross/Cultures, cartea 174

Autor Elina Valovirta
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 2013
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789042038608
ISBN-10: 9042038608
Pagini: 220
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Cross/Cultures


Cuprins

Acknowledgements
1. Sexual Feelings Beside(s) Each Other: Reading and Situating Caribbean (Literary) Sexualities
2. Reading the Ambivalence of Sexuality in Transition: Erna Brodber and Oonya Kempadoo
3. Ways of Reading Sexual Shame, Violence, and Pain: Edwidge Danticat, Opal Palmer Adisa, and Erna Brodber
4. Communities That Heal – Reading Sexual Healing: Edwidge Danticat, Opal Palmer Adisa, Erna Brodber, and Shani Mootoo
5. Shadow(ing) Men – Visions of Caring Masculinities: Erna Brodber, Opal Palmer Adisa, and Shani Mootoo
6. ‘Caribbean Passion’ – The Hypersexual and the Asexual Woman as Reparative Tropes: Opal Palmer Adisa and Erna Brodber
7. Sisters Together and Apart: Towards an Affective Phenomenology of Reading
Works Cited
Index

Notă biografică

Elina Valovirta is a Post-Doctoral Fellow employed by the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS) and stationed in the Department of English, University of Turku, Finland. She has published on Caribbean women’s writing in English, feminist pedagogy, and cultural studies.

Recenzii

“Valovirta offers the reader a fair sense of the rich polyphony that exists in contemporary Anglophone Caribbean Women’s writing. Exploring the works of Erna Brodber, Oonya Kempadoo, Edwidge Danticat, Opal Adisa, and Shani Mootoo, Sexual Feelings, as the title suggests, seeks to examine the underpinnings of sexuality, sexual orientation, and gender within these located feminine perspectives. In doing so, Valovirta also presents a cross-section of relevant Caribbean feminist scholars and engages with their works in arguing their relevance to her own analyses in this book. Contemporary voices in Caribbean feminist thought like Helen Scott, Evelyn O’Callaghan, Myriam Chancy, Cynthia James, Linden Lewis, Anita Haya Patterson, Janet Momsen, Denise deCaires Narain, Rhoda Reddock, Marietta Morrissey, Carole Boyce Davies, and Elaine Savory Fido—to name a few—form not only a conceptual universe within which Caribbean women’s literatures may be understood, but also serve to locate and clearly define the scope of Valovirta’s own scholarship within the field.” - S. Satish Kumar, in: Recherche littéraire/Literary Research, Vol. 33, Summer 2017