Thiefing Sugar - Eroticism Between Women in Caribbean Literature

Informationen zum Autor Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. Klappentext A study of relationships between women in Caribbean literature. Zusammenfassung This exploration of the poetry and prose of Caribbean women writers reveals in their imagery a rich tradition of erotic relations between women. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Spring of Her Look 1 1. "Rose is my mama, stanfaste is my papa": Hybrid Landscapes and Sexualities in Surinamese Women's Oral Poetry 29 2. Darkening the Lily: The Erotics of Self-Making in Eliot Bliss's Luminous Isle 68 3. Blue Countries, Dark Beauty: Opaque Desires in the Poetry of Ida Faubert 102 4. At the River of Washerwomen: Work, Water, and Sexual Fluidity in Mayotte Capécia's I Am a Martinican Woman 136 5. Transforming Sugar, Transitioning Revolution: Male Womanhood and Lesbian Eroticism in Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven 169 6. Breaking Hard against Things: Crossing between Sexual and Revolutionary Politics in Dionne Brand's No Language in Neutral 201 Notes 233 Bibliography 257 Index 269

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• Authors: Eke, Omise'eke Natashatinsley, Omise&apos Tinsley, Omise'eke Tinsley, Omiseeke Natasha Tinsley, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley, Omise''eke Natasha Tinsley
• Assisted by: Judith Halberstam (Editor), Lisa Lowe (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.08.2010
• EAN: 9780822347569
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4756-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe; Perverse Modernities; Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe; Perverse Modernities: A Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies