Sexual feelings : reading anglophone Caribbean women's writing through affect / Elina Valovirta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Valovirta, Elina, author.

Series:

Cross/cultures ; 174.

Cross/cultures: readings in post/colonial literatures and cultures in English ; 174

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caribbean literature (English)--Women authors--History and criticism.

Caribbean literature (English).

Sex in literature.

Caribbean literature (English)--Women authors.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

viii, 217 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2014.

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 backgrounds.

Contents:

Sexual Feelings Beside(s) Each Other : reading and situating Caribbean (literary) sexualities

Reading the Ambivalence of Sexuality in Transition : Erna Brodber and Oonya Kempadoo

Ways of Reading Sexual Shame, Violence, and Pain : Edwidge Danticat, Opal Palmer Adisa, and Erna Brodber

Communities That Heal

Reading Sexual Healing : Edwidge Danticat, Opal Palmer Adisa, Erna Brodber, and Shani Mootoo

Shadow(ing) Men

Visions of Caring Masculinities : Erna Brodber, Opal Palmer Adisa, and Shani Mootoo

'Caribbean Passion'

The Hypersexual and the Asexual Woman as Reparative Tropes : Opal Palmer Adisa and Erna Brodber

Sisters Together and Apart : towards an affective phenomenology of reading,

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-206) and index.

ISBN:

9042038608

9789042038608

OCLC:

885470847