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

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 pr...

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Main Author: Valovirta, Elina
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2014
Series:Cross/cultures ; 174.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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.