Sex and nation in transatlantic literatures /
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, weaving a transnational and transatlantic network of influences despite the pronounced geopolitical and cult...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
[2025].
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| Series: | Global perspectives in Irish literacy studies.
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| Summary: | 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, weaving a transnational and transatlantic network of influences despite the pronounced geopolitical and cultural differences. With wide geographical scope and a comparative approach, Szczeszak-Brewer delves into the metaphorical currency of male impotence, sexual aggression and gender-nonconforming characters in nationalist narratives from Ireland, the United States, Poland, France, Britain, South Africa and Senegal, in the work of writers such as James Joyce, Witold Gombrowicz, Jean Toomer, Bessie Head, Zoë Wicomb, J.M. Coetzee, Andrea Levy, Patrick McCabe and David Diop. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 236 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781350323377 1350323373 9781350323339 1350323330 |