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Author:   Elina Valovirta
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Editions Rodopi B.V.
Volume:   174
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.361kg
ISBN:  

9789042038608

ISBN 10:   9042038608
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   01 January 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 1. Sexual Feelings Beside(s) Each Other: Reading and Situating Caribbean (Literary) Sexualities 2. Reading the Ambivalence of Sexuality in Transition: Erna Brodber and Oonya Kempadoo 3. Ways of Reading Sexual Shame, Violence, and Pain: Edwidge Danticat, Opal Palmer Adisa, and Erna Brodber 4. Communities That Heal - Reading Sexual Healing: Edwidge Danticat, Opal Palmer Adisa, Erna Brodber, and Shani Mootoo 5. Shadow(ing) Men - Visions of Caring Masculinities: Erna Brodber, Opal Palmer Adisa, and Shani Mootoo 6. 'Caribbean Passion' - The Hypersexual and the Asexual Woman as Reparative Tropes: Opal Palmer Adisa and Erna Brodber 7. Sisters Together and Apart: Towards an Affective Phenomenology of Reading Works Cited Index

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Valovirta offers the reader a fair sense of the rich polyphony that exists in contemporary Anglophone Caribbean Women's writing. Exploring the works of Erna Brodber, Oonya Kempadoo, Edwidge Danticat, Opal Adisa, and Shani Mootoo, Sexual Feelings, as the title suggests, seeks to examine the underpinnings of sexuality, sexual orientation, and gender within these located feminine perspectives. In doing so, Valovirta also presents a cross-section of relevant Caribbean feminist scholars and engages with their works in arguing their relevance to her own analyses in this book. Contemporary voices in Caribbean feminist thought like Helen Scott, Evelyn O'Callaghan, Myriam Chancy, Cynthia James, Linden Lewis, Anita Haya Patterson, Janet Momsen, Denise deCaires Narain, Rhoda Reddock, Marietta Morrissey, Carole Boyce Davies, and Elaine Savory Fido-to name a few-form not only a conceptual universe within which Caribbean women's literatures may be understood, but also serve to locate and clearly define the scope of Valovirta's own scholarship within the field. - S. Satish Kumar, Recherche litteraire/Literary Research, Vol. 33, Summer 2017.

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Elina Valovirta is a Post-Doctoral Fellow employed by the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS) and stationed in the Department of English, University of Turku, Finland. She has published on Caribbean women's writing in English, feminist pedagogy, and cultural studies.

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