Sex and Nation in Transatlantic Literatures
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Sex and Nation in Transatlantic Literatures

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Sex and Nation in Transatlantic Literatures

About this book

Nationalist and tribal cohesion in Ireland, South Africa, the US, and elsewhere often relies on an absence of female and gender-nonconforming bodies in the public life.
Staging a vital counter-narrative to global nationalist discourses, this book explores how 20th and 21st-century postcolonial literatures criticize hetero-normative definitions of nationhood across different geopolitical and cultural contexts.
Szczeszak-Brewer delves into the metaphorical currency of male impotence and sexual aggression in nationalist narratives. She examines the place of gender-nonconforming characters in literature from Ireland, the US, Poland, France, Britain, South Africa, and Senegal, in the work of writers including: James Joyce, Witold Gombrowicz, Jean Toomer, Bessie Head, Zoë Wicomb, J. M. Coetzee, Andrea Levy, Patrick McCabe, and David Diop.
Aligning queer and gender perspectives with discussions of white supremacy, this book examines the urgency for contemporary geopolitics to imagine new discourses of community against the backdrop of a rise in neo-nationalisms steeped in homophobic and misogynistic rhetoric.

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Yes, you can access Sex and Nation in Transatlantic Literatures by Agata Szczeszak-Brewer in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & African Literary Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781350323353
Edition
0
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
African Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Dedication Page
  4. Title Page
  5. CONTENTS
  6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  7. INTRODUCTION: WRITERS RESPOND TO NATIONALISMS’ GENDER PANIC
  8. Chapter 1 JAMES JOYCE’S WOMANLY MEN
  9. Chapter 2 VIRGINIA WOOLF: MODERNISM, NATION, PROPORTION
  10. Chapter 3 CROSS-DRESSING PUTOS IN WITOLD GOMBROWICZ’S TRANS-ATLANTYK
  11. Chapter 4 QUEERING THE SOUTH: NATION, RACE, AND SEX IN JEAN TOOMER’S CANE
  12. Chapter 5 STATES OF EMERGENCY: REGULATING SEX IN RICHARD RIVE’S FICTION
  13. Chapter 6 SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONHOOD, INCEST, AND MISCEGENATION IN J. M. COETZEE’S IN THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY
  14. Chapter 7 TRIBALISM AND INTIMATE VIOLENCE IN PATRICK MCCABE’S BREAKFAST ON PLUTO
  15. Chapter 8 WHITE ALLYSHIP AND NARRATIVE DISSONANCE IN ANDREA LEVY’S SMALL ISLAND
  16. Chapter 9 QUEERING THE TRENCHES IN DAVID DIOP’S AT NIGHT ALL BLOOD IS BLACK
  17. CONCLUSION: LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE
  18. NOTES
  19. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  20. INDEX
  21. Imprint