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Sexuality and Contemporary Literature (Hardcover, New)
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Sexuality and Contemporary Literature (Hardcover, New)
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Over the last thirty years, feminist, postcolonial and queer
theorists have interrogated the ways in which sexuality is
conceptualized and constructed, specifically with the intention of
deconstructing essentialist notions of sexuality and identity
formation. Yet, while recent theoretical interventions have
re-situated sexuality as a historical and social category--allowing
us to see how ideas about sexuality are linked to forms of power
and other hegemonic categories of identity and subjectivity like
class, race, gender and nationality--sexuality remains a
contentious subject. In critically examining the plural
representations of sexuality in contemporary literature, this book
has a distinctly global emphasis, containing essays that
interrogate sexuality in the work of not only a number of
mainstream American and British writers but also less well-known
writers from New Zealand and Canada. All of the chapters owe
primary intellectual and theoretical debts to three broad and
overlapping domains of critical scholarship and practice: feminism,
queer theory, and postcolonial studies. As the first critical
collection of essays to consider the representation of sexuality
across such a wide variety of contemporary writing, Sexuality and
Contemporary Literature analytically foregrounds insights into the
historical and current arrangements of sexuality that contemporary
literature provides, while also inviting the reader to imagine
other possibilities for the future that literary texts open up.
Sexuality and Contemporary Literature is an important book for
literary and cultural studies collections.
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