1st Edition
Sexuality, Gender and Nationalism in Caribbean Literature
By Kate Houlden
Copyright 2017
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Acknowledgements
Introduction: ‘The Sex Life Gone Wild’
Part One
Chapter One: Transgressive Desires
Chapter Two: Fantasies of Black Masculinity
Chapter Three: Subversive Stylistics
Part Two
Chapter Four: Male Same-Sex Desire
Chapter Five: Female Same-Sex Desire
Notes
Works Cited
Biography
Kate Houlden is a Senior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University. She has published widely on gender and sexuality in Caribbean literature and holds a PhD from the Department of English at Queen Mary, University of London.
