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Sexuality, Gender and Nationalism in Caribbean Literature (Paperback)
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Sexuality, Gender and Nationalism in Caribbean Literature (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
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This book is the first to focus exclusively on issues of gender and
sexuality in a range of post-war novels from the Anglophone
Caribbean. Concentrating on the 1950s to the mid 1970s, it
highlights the period's diversity of sexual concerns. New readings
of seminal figures like Samuel Selvon and George Lamming are
offered, in tandem with discussion of innovative, lesser-studied
authors such as Andrew Salkey, Oscar Dathorne and Rosa Guy. Whereas
this body of work has tended to be characterised as minimally
engaged with sexuality and overly reliant on patriarchal,
heteronormative frameworks, the book takes a different approach.
First, it unpacks the motivations behind the masculinist bent of
much of this writing, emphasising the anxieties underlying such
assertion. It exposes both the gendered and sexual imperatives of
the nationalist project and the destabilising effects of migration
on masculine performance. Second, it brings to life a range of
critically neglected same-sex desires. Framing such longing as both
narratively and nationally disruptive, it recovers the marginalised
erotic relations that challenge fantasies of national cohesion. As
a result, the book opens up existing mappings of Caribbean fiction.
Drawing on queer theory, feminism and masculinity studies, it
highlights the ways in which sex both exceeds and threatens the
imagined unity on which the nationalist vision depends.
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