Kate Houlden

Sexuality, Gender and Nationalism in Caribbean Literature (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on sex and sexuality in post-war novels from the Anglophone Caribbean. Countering the critical orthodoxy that literature from this period dealt with sex only tangentially, implicitly transmitting sexist or homophobic messages, the author instead highlights the range and diversity in its representations of sexual life. She draws on gender and sexuality studies, postcolonial theory and cultural history to provide new readings of seminal figures like Samuel Selvon and George Lamming whilst also calling attention to the work of innovative, lesser-studied authors such as Andrew Salkey, Oscar Dathorne and Rosa Guy.

Offering a coherent and expansive overview of how post-war Caribbean novelists have treated the persistently controversial topic of sex, this book addresses one of the blind spots in Caribbean literary criticism. It mines a range of little-studied archival materials and texts to argue that fiction of the post-war era exhibits both continuities with the sexual emphases of earlier writing and connections to later trends. The author also presents nationalist ideology as central to the literature of this era. It is in the fictional rendering of sexuality that the contradictions of the nationalist project are most apparent; sex both exceeds and threatens the imagined unity on which the political vision depends.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317748670
• Artikelnr.: 47140248

Autorenporträt

Kate Houlden is a Lecturer in English Literature and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. Her research interests include Caribbean literature, postcolonial literature, contemporary fiction, feminism, queer theory, gender and sexuality studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: 'The Sex Life Gone Wild'
Part One
Chapter One: Transgressive Desires
Chapter Two: Fantasies of Black Masculinity
Chapter Three: Subversive Stylistics
Part Two
Chapter Four: Male Same-Sex Desire
Chapter Five: Female Same-Sex Desire
Notes
Works Cited