Sexuality, Gender and Nationalism in Caribbean Literature

ISBN-13: 9780367869342 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 230 str.

Kate Houlden

Opis

This book focuses on sex and sexuality in post-war novels from the Anglophone Caribbean. Countering the critical orthodoxy that literature from this period dealt with sex only tangentially, implicitly transmitting sexist or homophobic messages, the author instead highlights the range and diversity in its representations of sexual life. She draws

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Acknowledgements

Introduction: ‘The Sex Life Gone Wild’

Part One

Chapter One: Transgressive Desires

Chapter Two: Fantasies of Black Masculinity

Chapter Three: Subversive Stylistics

Part Two

Chapter Four: Male Same-Sex Desire

Chapter Five: Female Same-Sex Desire

Notes

Works Cited

O autorze

Kate Houlden is a Senior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University. She has published widely on gender and sexuality in Caribbean literature and holds a PhD from the Department of English at Queen Mary, University of London.