Creolized Sexualities : Undoing Heteronormativity in the Literary Imagination of the Anglo-Caribbean /

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"Creolized Sexualities: Undoing Heteronormativity in the Literary Imagination of the Anglo-Caribbean draws attention to a wide, and surprising, range of writings that craft inclusive and pluralizing representations of sexual possibilities within the Caribbean imagination. Reading across an ecle...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Donnell, Alison, 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2022]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Heterosexism in literature.
Group identity in literature.
Gender nonconformity in literature.
Caribbean fiction (English)
Identite collective dans la litterature.
Transgenrisme dans la litterature.
Heterosexisme dans la litterature.
Roman antillais (anglais) > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Caribbean fiction (English) > 20th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Undoing heteronormativity and the erotics of creolization
  • The queer creolized Caribbean
  • Creolizing heterosexuality : Curdella Forbes's "A permanent freedom" and Shani Mootoo's Valmiki's daughter
  • Caribbean freedoms and queering homonormativity : Andrew Salkey's Escape to an autumn pavement
  • Queering Caribbean homophobia : non-heteronormative hypermasculinity in Marlon James's A brief history of seven killings and Junot Díaz's The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao
  • Imagining impossible possibilities : Shani Mootoo's Moving forward sideways like a crab and selected writings by Thomas Glave.

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