Publication

2010 - University of Turku, Turku, Finland

Language

English

Word Count

53,750 words, Guess

Page Count

215 pages

Identifiers

Description

The present book offers a reader-theoretical model for approaching anglophone Caribbean women's writing through affects, emotions, and feelings related to sexuality, a prominent theme in the literary tradition. How does an affective framework help us read this tradition of writing that is so preoccupied with sexual feelings? The novelists discussed in the book - chiefly Erna Brodber, Opal Palmer Adisa, Edwidge Danticat, Shani Mootoo, and Oonya Kempadoo - are representative of various anglophone Caribbean island cultures and English-speaking backƠgrounds. The study makes astute use of the theor.

Subjects

Topics

NaisetTunteetLukeminenKirjailijatWomen authorsSeksuaalisuusEmotionaalisuus

Places

Karibianmeren alue

People

Erna BrodberShani MootooOonya KempadooEdwidge DanticatOpal Palmer Adisa

Series Statement

  • Anglicana Turkuensia -- no. 28

Other Editions

  • Sexual feelings: reading, affectivity and sexuality in a selection of Anglophone Caribbeans women's writingUniversity of Turku2010-01-01

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