Sexual Feelings : Reading Anglophone Caribbean Women's Writing Through Affect.

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Author / Creator:Valovirta, Elina.
Imprint:Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2014.
Description:1 online resource (222 pages)
Language:English
Series:Cross/Cultures ; 174
Cross/cultures ; 174.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11235589
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ISBN:9789401211024
9401211027
9789042038608
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
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 theor.
Other form:Print version: Valovirta, Elina. Sexual Feelings. Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2014 9789042038608
Standard no.:10.1163/9789401211024

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