Desire Between Women in Caribbean Literature

Zusatztext "Valens's engrossing! convincing! and eminently readable study repositions the Caribbean literary texts she analyses in new! uncharted directions. As she explores both traditional and innovative territory for women's desires! relationships! and positions! she forges new ground beyond heteronormative discourses and readings! allowing for anyone interested in gender studies! the Caribbean! and postcolonialism to gain new perspectives and engaging insights into these texts." (Mary McCullough! Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature! newprairiepress.org! Vol. 41 (2)! 2017)  Informationen zum Autor Keja Valens is Associate Professor of English at Salem State University, USA. Klappentext Relations between women - like the branches and roots of the mangrove - twist around, across, and within others as they pervade Caribbean letters. Desire between Women in Caribbean Literature elucidates the place of desire between women in Caribbean letters, compelling readers to rethink how to read the structures and practices of sexuality. Zusammenfassung Relations between women - like the branches and roots of the mangrove - twist around! across! and within others as they pervade Caribbean letters. Desire between Women in Caribbean Literature elucidates the place of desire between women in Caribbean letters! compelling readers to rethink how to read the structures and practices of sexuality. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Epistemology of the Mangrove 1. José Martí's Foundational Failure 2. Lost Idyll: Mayotte Capécia's Je suis Martiniquaise 3. Replaced Origins: Maryse Condé's Moi Tituba sorcière…noire de Salem 4. Plotting Desire between Girls: Jamaica Kincaid's At the Bottom of the River 5. Sexual Alternatives in Patricia Powell's Me Dying Trial 6. The Love of Neighbors: Rosario Ferré's Eccentric Neighborhoods/Vecindarios eccéntricos Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: K Valens, K. Valens, Keja Valens
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2015
• EAN: 9781349464708
• ISBN: 978-1-349-46470-8
• No. of pages: 222
• Series: New Caribbean Studies; New Caribbean Studies
• Subjects: Fiction; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; B, Literature, Fiction & related items, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Fiction, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, Postcolonial/World Literature