Sexual Feelings : Reading Anglophone Caribbean Women's Writing Through Affect.

By:

Valovirta, Elina

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Cross/cultures ; 174.Publication details: Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (222 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9789401211024
9401211027

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sexual Feelings.DDC classification:

810.99729 23

LOC classification:

PR9210 V36 2010

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Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Sexual Feelings Beside(s) Each Other; 2 Reading the Ambivalence of Sexuality in Transition; 3 Ways of Reading Sexual Shame, Violence, and Pain; 4 Communities That Heal -- Reading Sexual Healing; 5 Shadow(ing) Men -- Visions of Caring Masculinities; 6 'Caribbean Passion' -- The Hypersexualand the Asexual Woman as Reparative Tropes; 7 Sisters Together and Apart; Works Cited; Index.

Summary: 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 theor.

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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 theor.