K. Valens

Desire Between Women in Caribbean Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• New Caribbean Studies
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-34007-8
• 2013
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 409g
• ISBN-13: 9781137340078
• ISBN-10: 113734007X
• Artikelnr.: 39360104

Autorenporträt

Keja Valens is Associate Professor of English at Salem State University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

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

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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

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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

Rezensionen

"Desire Between Women in Caribbean Literature ranges effortlessly and impressively across Francophone, Hispanic, and Anglophone Caribbean literary worlds in order to reveal a much more inclusive model of sexual relations and desires between women than is commonly anticipated or discussed. Valens's comparative methodology and her emphasis on plural and plastic sexual behaviours work together to narrate a regional female erotic culture through literature that makes an insightful contribution to Caribbean sexuality studies." - Alison Donnell, Professor of Modern Literatures in English, University of Reading, UK, and author of Twentieth Century Caribbean Literature: Critical Moments in Anglophone Literary History "Desire Between Women in Caribbean Literature counters the marginalization and invisibility of women's intimacies without dissolving their opacity. Focusing on the 'mangled' quality of these relations, Valens sees complexity and darkness as integral to an erotics of survival. At once an ambitious work of literary history and a major intervention in gender and sexuality studies, Desire Between Women recasts relations of secrecy and knowledge through careful attention to the sensuous particularity of language, bodies, and place." - Heather Love, R. Jean Brownlee Term Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania, USA

"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)