Queer rebellion in the novels of Michelle Cliff : intersectionality and sexual modernity / by Kaisa Ilmonen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ilmonen, Kaisa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexual minorities in literature.

LGBTQ+ people in literature.

Cliff, Michelle--Criticism and interpretation.

Cliff, Michelle.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

This book explores Jamaican-American author Michelle Cliff's (1946-2016) literary rebellion against the colonial, gendered and racist norms of Western Modernity. It studies the sexualized circuits of the Atlantic world, drawing on the fields of literary criticism, feminist theories, queer studies and Caribbean studies. In order to do this, the book develops the theoretical paradigm of intersectionality. It also addresses the disturbing questions concerning the sexual politics of transatlantic modernity as represented in Cliff's novels. Cliff's rebellious poetics envisions the colonial Caribbean past in new ways. Her novels tell stories about Caribbean queer characters setting the queer as a site of postcolonial agency and as a perspective out of which colonial history can be re-written. This book considers myths, rites, and cultural memory as sites of healing in the midst of colonial bodily politics. Transnational histories, identity and ethics emerge as intertwined in Cliff's feminist novels.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Chapter One

Michelle Cliff's Works in the Context of Caribbean and US Migrant Writing

Postcolonial Studies Today

Caribbean and Feminist Contestations on Postcolonial Studies

Intersectionality and Identity as Research Concepts

Fluidities of Creole and Queer

Chapter Two

Abeng: From Male History to Female Archaeology

No Telephone to Heaven: An Inappropriate Other on Her Way Home

Free Enterprise: Towards Transnational Histories of Resistance

Chapter Three

Modern Empiricism and the Categorizations of Race and Sexuality

The Caribbean as the Flip Side of Imperial Modernity

Colonial Knowledge as White Mythology in Abeng

Colonial Language versus Rebellious Speech in No Telephone to Heaven

Chapter Four

Daughters of Caliban: Hybrid Myths as Counter-Narratives

Creolizing Myths of Origins and Myths of Return

Marooning the Flora and the Fauna

Victorian Values Revisited: Gardens of Resistance in No Telephone to Heaven

Social Rituality, Gender, and the Textual Healing of a Colonized Body in Abeng

Sickness Countered by Healing Storytelling in Free Enterprise

Chapter Five

The Colonized Mother and the Matrilineal Displacement

Remembering Grandmother and the Maternal Is/land

Beyond Biologisms: The Rise of the Feminist Daughter

Chapter Six

Lesbian Feminist Aesthetics in Abeng

Queer Telephone to Heaven

Free Enterprise: Intersections of Ethnicity and Sexuality

Chapter Seven

Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 5, 2017).

ISBN:

1-4438-9343-9

OCLC:

987251209