Title Sexuality, gender and nationalism in Caribbean literature / by Kate Houlden

Published New York : Routledge, 2017

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Description 1 online resource Series Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 56 Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 56. Contents Transgressive desires -- Fantasies of black masculinity -- Subversive stylistics -- Male same-sex desire -- Female same-sex desire Summary This book focuses on sex and sexuality in post-war novels from the Anglophone Caribbean. Countering the critical orthodoxy that literature from this period dealt with sex only tangentially, implicitly transmitting sexist or homophobic messages, the author instead highlights the range and diversity in its representations of sexual life. She draws on gender and sexuality studies, postcolonial theory and cultural history to provide new readings of seminal figures like Samuel Selvon and George Lamming whilst also calling attention to the work of innovative, lesser-studied authors such as Andrew Salkey, Oscar Dathorne and Rosa Guy. Offering a coherent and expansive overview of how post-war Caribbean novelists have treated the persistently controversial topic of sex, this book addresses one of the blind spots in Caribbean literary criticism. It mines a range of little-studied archival materials and texts to argue that fiction of the post-war era exhibits both continuities with the sexual emphases of earlier writing and connections to later trends. The author also presents nationalist ideology as central to the literature of this era. It is in the fictional rendering of sexuality that the contradictions of the nationalist project are most apparent; sex both exceeds and threatens the imagined unity on which the political vision depends Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Caribbean literature -- History and criticism Sex in literature. Gender identity in literature. Nationalism in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. Caribbean literature Gender identity in literature Nationalism in literature Sex in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781317748670 1317748670 9781317748663 1317748662

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