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Rereading Heterosexuality : Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction / / Rachel Carroll



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Autore: Carroll Rachel Visualizza persona
Titolo: Rereading Heterosexuality : Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction / / Rachel Carroll Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Edinburgh University Press, 2012
Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2012
©2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (169 p.)
Disciplina: 823.9209
Soggetto topico: American fiction - 21st century - History and criticism
English fiction - 21st century - History and criticism
Heterosexuality in literature
Feminist literary criticism
Soggetto non controllato: Literature
Contemporary Fiction
sexuality
queer theory
women writers
feminist theory
critical theory
Heteronormativity
Heterosexuality
Homosexuality
Human sexuality
Lesbian
Spinster
Classificazione: EC 1876
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliography (p. [149]-156) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: Presents new perspectives on representations of female heterosexuality 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
Titolo autorizzato: Rereading heterosexuality  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4744-2981-5
0-7486-4908-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910255448103321
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