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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Valovirta, Elina.
Imprint:	Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource (222 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Cross/Cultures ; 174 Cross/cultures ; 174.
Subject:	West Indian literature (English) -- History and criticism. West Indian literature (English) -- Women authors. Sex in literature. Sex in literature. West Indian literature (English) West Indian literature (English) -- Women authors. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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

Table of Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Sexual Feelings Beside(s) Each Other; 2 Reading the Ambivalence of Sexuality in Transition; 3 Ways of Reading Sexual Shame, Violence, and Pain; 4 Communities That Heal
Reading Sexual Healing; 5 Shadow(ing) Men
Visions of Caring Masculinities; 6 'Caribbean Passion'
The Hypersexualand the Asexual Woman as Reparative Tropes; 7 Sisters Together and Apart; Works Cited; Index.