Jenni Ramone

Global Literature and Gender

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offering a thorough introduction to notions of gender in contemporary global literature, Global Literature and Gender uses postcolonial theories alongside theories of space and place, theories of globalization, and reference to the Posthuman and the Anthropocene as competing narratives of the contemporary.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• ISBN-13: 9780367373511
• ISBN-10: 0367373513
• Artikelnr.: 71302161

Autorenporträt

Jenni Ramone is Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Global Literatures at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Previous books include Postcolonial Literatures in the Local Literary Marketplace: Located Reading (2020) and Postcolonial Theories (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Twenty-First Century Global Literature and Gender
Chapter 1: Female Reproductive Labour: Mothering, Breastfeeding,
Wetnursing, Surrogacy
Chapter 2: Object(ification)s: Women as Objects / Women and Objects
Chapter 3: Contingent Masculinities in Glocalization: Incarceration,
Transport, and Delivery
Chapter 4: Island Identities, Trading, and Sex Tourism: Undoing
Masculinities
Chapter 5: Transing: Twenty-first Century Global Texts ask 'What if...?'
about (Trans)Gender
Chapter 6: Boundary-Crossing and Transgender: Gender as Mobile
Conclusion: Gender, the Anthropocene, and the Posthuman