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Queer Rebellion in the Novels of Michelle Cliff : Intersectionality and Sexual Modernity by Kaisa Ilmonen, Author is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Queer Rebellion in the Novels of Michelle Cliff : Intersectionality and Sexual Modernity about?

This book explores Jamaican-American author Michelle Cliff’s (1946–2016) literary rebellion against the colonial, gendered and racist norms of Western Modernity. It studies the sexualized circuits of the Atlantic world, drawing on the fields of literary criticism, feminist theories, queer studies and Caribbean studies. In order to do this, the book develops the theoretical paradigm of intersectionality. It also addresses the disturbing questions concerning the sexual politics of transatlantic modernity as represented in Cliff’s novels. Cliff’s rebellious poetics envisions the colonial Caribbean past in new ways. Her novels tell stories about Caribbean queer characters setting the queer as a site of postcolonial agency and as a perspective out of which colonial history can be re-written. This book considers myths, rites, and cultural memory as sites of healing in the midst of colonial bodily politics. Transnational histories, identity and ethics emerge as intertwined in Cliff’s feminist novels.

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Author

Kaisa Ilmonen, Author

Publisher

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781443893435

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, Sociology