Sexual Feelings : Reading Anglophone Caribbean Women's Writing Through Affect.
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Author / Creator: | Valovirta, Elina. |
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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 |
ISBN: | 9789401211024 9401211027 9789042038608 |
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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 backĀ¬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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