Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-206) and index.
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,
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.
Series:
Cross/cultures : readings in post/colonial literatures and cultures in English ; 174
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