Rachel Carroll

Rereading Heterosexuality (eBook, PDF)

Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction

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Produktbeschreibung

Presents new perspectives on representations of female heterosexuality in selected contemporary British and American novels.Drawing on feminist and queer theories of sex, gender and sexuality, this study focuses on female identities at odds with heterosexual norms. In particular, it explores narratives in which the conventional equation between heterosexuality, reproductive sexuality and female identity is questioned. Key Features: * A timely exploration of the dynamic relationship between feminist and queer theory* Offers close analysis of influential novels by leading contemporary authors, including Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex (2002), Zoe Heller's Notes on a Scandal (2003), Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go (2005), Alan Warner's Morvern Callar (1995), A.M Homes's The End of Alice (1996), and Sarah Waters's Affinity (1999)* Topics range from spinsterhood and intergenerational sexuality to transgender and human cloning

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748649082
• Artikelnr.: 38439232

Autorenporträt

Rachel Carroll is Reader in English at Teesside University, UK. She is author of Rereading Heterosexuality: Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction (Edinburgh University Press, 2012) and editor of Adaptation in Contemporary Culture: Textual Infidelities (Continuum, 2009) and Litpop: Writing and Popular Music (with Adam Hansen, Ashgate, 2014). Her research has been published in journals including Adaptation, Contemporary Women's Writing, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Textual Practice and Women: a cultural review.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Feminism, Queer Theory and Heterosexuality; Part One:
Revisiting the spinster; 1. 'Becoming my own ghost': spinsterhood and the
'invisibility' of heterosexuality in Sarah Waters's Affinity; 2. Telling
tales out of school: spinsters, scandals and intergenerational
heterosexuality in Zoë Heller's Notes on a Scandal; Part Two: Transgressive
female heterosexuality; 3. Queering Alice, killing Lolita: feminism, queer
theory and the politics of child sexuality in A.M Homes's The End of Alice;
4. Unauthorised reproduction: class, pregnancy and transgressive female
heterosexuality in Alan Warner's Morvern Callar; Part Three: Reproducing
heterosexuality; 5. 'First one thing and then the other': rewriting the
intersexed body in Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex; 6. Imitations of life:
cloning, heterosexuality and the human in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go