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The postcolonial body in queer space and time / by Rebecca Fine Romanow.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Romanow, Rebecca Fine.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Postcolonialism.
- Postcolonialism in literature.
- Sex in literature.
- Immigrants' writings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (200 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Postcolonial Body in Queer Space and Time examines the ways in which the notion of the postcolonial correlates to Judith Halberstam's idea of queer space and time, the non-normative path of Western lifestyles and hegemonies. Emphasizing authors from Africa and Southeast Asia in the diaspora in London from the mid-1960s through 1990, the reading of both postcolonial lands and subjects as "queer counterproductive" space reveals a depiction of bodies in these texts as located in and perform...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER 3; CHAPTER 4; CHAPTER 5; CHAPTER 6; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-19153-5
- 9786612191534
- 1-4438-0782-6
- OCLC:
- 741344303
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