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 ; 174

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

West Indian literature (English)--History and criticism.

West Indian literature (English).

West Indian literature (English)--Women authors.

Sex in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands : Rodopi, 2014.

Language Note:

English

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 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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

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 , Adisa Opal Palmer and Brodber Erna

Communities That Heal – Reading Sexual Healing / Danticat Edwidge , Adisa Opal Palmer , Brodber Erna and Mootoo Shani

Shadow(ing) Men – Visions of Caring Masculinities / Brodber Erna , Adisa Opal Palmer and Mootoo Shani

‘Caribbean Passion’ – The Hypersexual and the Asexual Woman as Reparative Tropes / Adisa Opal Palmer and Mootoo Shani

Sisters Together and Apart: Towards an Affective Phenomenology of Reading

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 25, 2014).

ISBN:

94-012-1102-7

OCLC:

890529378

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401211024 DOI