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UNINA9910255448103321 |
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Autore |
Carroll Rachel |
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Titolo |
Rereading Heterosexuality : Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction / / Rachel Carroll |
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Edinburgh University Press, 2012 |
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Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2012 |
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©2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-4744-2981-5 |
0-7486-4908-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (169 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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American fiction - 21st century - History and criticism |
English fiction - 21st century - History and criticism |
Heterosexuality in literature |
Feminist literary criticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliography (p. [149]-156) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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COVER; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: feminism, queer theory and heterosexuality; Part One: Revisiting the spinster; Chapter 1 'Becoming my own ghost': spinsterhood and the 'invisibility' of heterosexuality in Sarah Waters' Affinity; Chapter 2 Telling tales out of school: spinsters, scandals and intergenerational heterosexuality in Zoë Heller's Notes on a Scandal; Part Two: Transgressive female heterosexuality; Chapter 3 Queering Alice, killing Lolita: feminism, queer theory and the politics of child sexuality in A. M. Homes's The End of Alice |
Chapter 4 Unauthorised reproduction: class, pregnancy and transgressive female heterosexuality in Alan Warner's Morvern CallarPart Three: Reproducing heterosexuality; Chapter 5 'First one thing and then the other': rewriting the intersexed body in Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex; Chapter 6 Imitations of life: cloning, heterosexuality and the human in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Presents new perspectives on representations of female heterosexuality |
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in selected contemporary British and American novels.Drawing on feminist and queer theories of sex, gender and sexuality, this study focuses on female identities at odds with heterosexual norms. In particular, it explores narratives in which the conventional equation between heterosexuality, reproductive sexuality and female identity is questioned. Key Features: A timely exploration of the dynamic relationship between feminist and queer theory Offers close analysis of influential novels by leading contemporary authors, i |
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