Rereading Heterosexuality : Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction / Rachel Carroll.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carroll, Rachel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

English fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Heterosexuality in literature.

Feminist literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (169 p.)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh University Press 2012

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Presents new perspectives on representations of female heterosexuality in selected contemporary British and American novels.Drawing on feminist and queer theories of sex, gender and sexuality, this study focuses on female identities at odds with heterosexual norms. In particular, it explores narratives in which the conventional equation between heterosexuality, reproductive sexuality and female identity is questioned. Key Features: A timely exploration of the dynamic relationship between feminist and queer theory Offers close analysis of influential novels by leading contemporary authors, i

Contents:

COVER; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: feminism, queer theory and heterosexuality; Part One: Revisiting the spinster; Chapter 1 'Becoming my own ghost': spinsterhood and the 'invisibility' of heterosexuality in Sarah Waters' Affinity; Chapter 2 Telling tales out of school: spinsters, scandals and intergenerational heterosexuality in Zoë Heller's Notes on a Scandal; Part Two: Transgressive female heterosexuality; Chapter 3 Queering Alice, killing Lolita: feminism, queer theory and the politics of child sexuality in A. M. Homes's The End of Alice

Chapter 4 Unauthorised reproduction: class, pregnancy and transgressive female heterosexuality in Alan Warner's Morvern CallarPart Three: Reproducing heterosexuality; Chapter 5 'First one thing and then the other': rewriting the intersexed body in Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex; Chapter 6 Imitations of life: cloning, heterosexuality and the human in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliography (p. [149]-156) and index.

CC BY-NC

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781474429818

1474429815

9780748649082

0748649085

OCLC:

795695196

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access