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"In an unconventional way of delivering relationship advice, If Nuns Were Wives takes one on a journey into the monastery--transcending dogma and religion--and makes the role of the American wife the new holy temple for relationships. Using simple and easy-to-understand language, Chen guides women to not only find peace in their home, but to be utterly adored and revered by their spouse."--Back cover.

Nuns --- Marriage --- Communication in marriage --- Wives --- Conduct of life --- Chen, Shani --- Marriage.

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In Queer Tidalectics, Emilio Amideo investigates how Anglophone writers James Baldwin, Jackie Kay, Thomas Glave, and Shani Mootoo employ the trope of fluidity to articulate a Black queer diasporic aesthetics. Water recurs as a figurative and material site to express the Black queer experience within the diaspora, a means to explore malleability and overflowing sexual, gender, and racial boundaries. Amideo triangulates language, the aquatic, and affect to delineate a Black queer aesthetics, one that uses an idiom of fluidity, slipperiness, and opacity to undermine and circumvent gender normativity and the racialized heteropatriarchy embedded in English. The result is an outline of an ever-expanding affective archive of experiential knowledge. Amideo engages and extends the work of Black queer studies, Oceanic studies, ecocriticism, phenomenology, and new materialism through the theorizations of Sara Ahmed, Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley, M. Jacqui Alexander, Édouard Glissant, José Esteban Muñoz, and Edward Kamau Brathwaite, among others. Ambitious in scope and captivating to read, Queer Tidalectics brings Caribbean writers like Glissant and Brathwaite into queer literary analysis—a major scholarly contribution.

English literature --- American literature --- Gays in literature. --- Water in literature. --- Queer theory. --- Black authors --- History and criticism. --- African American authors --- Baldwin, James, --- Kay, Jackie, --- Glave, Thomas --- Mootoo, Shani --- Criticism and interpretation.

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As Contradictory Indianness shows, a postcolonial Caribbean aesthetics that has from its inception privileged inclusivity, interraciality, and resistance against Old World colonial orders requires taking into account Indo-Caribbean writers and their reimagining of Indianness in the region. Whereas, for instance, forms of Indo-Caribbean cultural expression in music, cuisine, or religion are more readily accepted as creolizing (thus, Caribbeanizing) processes, an Indo-Caribbean literary imaginary has rarely been studied as such. Discussing the work of Ismith Khan, Harold Sonny Ladoo, Totaram Sanadhya, LalBihari Sharma, and Shani Mootoo, Contradictory Indianness maintains that the writers' engagement with the regional and transnational poetics of the Caribbean underscores symbolic bridges between cultural worlds conventionally set apart—the Africanized and Indianized—and distinguishes between cultural worlds assumed to be the same—indenture and South Asian Indianness. This book privileges Indo-Caribbean fiction as a creolizing literary imaginary to broaden its study beyond a narrow canon that has, inadvertently or not, enabled monolithic and unidimensional perceptions of Indian cultural identity and evolution in the Caribbean, and continued to impose a fragmentary and disconnected study of (post)indenture aesthetics within indenture’s own transnational cartography.

Caribbean fiction (English) --- East Indian diaspora in literature. --- East Indians in literature. --- East Indian authors --- History and criticism. --- Indian, Caribbean, Indo-Caribbean, colonization, migration, migrants, immigrants, immigration, art, music, culture, Caribbean Studies, South Asian, Desi, Literature, Ismith Khan, Harold Sonny Ladoo, Totaram Sanadhya, LalBihari Sharma, Shani Mootoo, creole, creolization, indentured servitude.

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‘At last we have a definitive guide to the marriage between contemporary women’s fiction and the Gothic, which gleefully plunges the romance plot into darkness and prises heroines away from constraining narratives in an endless series of reinventions from the Cartesque through to the post-colonial.’ – Marie Mulvey-Roberts, University of the West of England, UK This book revives and revitalises the literary Gothic in the hands of contemporary women writers. It makes a scholarly, lively and convincing case that the Gothic makes horror respectable, and establishes contemporary women’s Gothic fictions in and against traditional Gothic. The book provides new, engaging perspectives on established contemporary women Gothic writers, with a particular focus on Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison. It explores how the Gothic is malleable in their hands and is used to demythologise oppressions based on difference in gender and ethnicity. The study presents new Gothic work and new nuances, critiques of dangerous complacency and radical questionings of what is safe and conformist in works as diverse as Twilight (Stephenie Meyer) and A Girl Walks Home Alone (Ana Lily Amirpur), as well as by Anne Rice and Poppy Brite. It also introduces and critically explores postcolonial, vampire and neohistorical Gothic and women’s ghost stories.

Philosophical anthropology --- Affective and dynamic functions --- Ethics of family. Ethics of sexuality --- Sociology of culture --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Sociology --- Didactics of the arts --- Film --- Psycholinguistics --- Literature --- vampieren --- psychologie --- sociologie --- postkolonialisme --- Gothic --- cultuur --- feminisme --- film --- literatuur --- vrouwen --- seksualiteit --- gender --- psycholinguïstiek --- wereldliteratuur --- creatief schrijven --- Meyer, Stephenie --- Carter, Angela --- Mootoo, Shani --- Maurier, du, Daphne --- Dunmore, Helen --- Brodber, Erna --- Oyeyemi, Helen --- Moss, Kate --- Hopkinson, Nalo --- Amirpour, Ana Lily --- Hill, Susan --- Rhys, Jean --- Gothic fiction (Literary genre) --- History and criticism. --- 1900-1999

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‘At last we have a definitive guide to the marriage between contemporary women’s fiction and the Gothic, which gleefully plunges the romance plot into darkness and prises heroines away from constraining narratives in an endless series of reinventions from the Cartesque through to the post-colonial.’ – Marie Mulvey-Roberts, University of the West of England, UK This book revives and revitalises the literary Gothic in the hands of contemporary women writers. It makes a scholarly, lively and convincing case that the Gothic makes horror respectable, and establishes contemporary women’s Gothic fictions in and against traditional Gothic. The book provides new, engaging perspectives on established contemporary women Gothic writers, with a particular focus on Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison. It explores how the Gothic is malleable in their hands and is used to demythologise oppressions based on difference in gender and ethnicity. The study presents new Gothic work and new nuances, critiques of dangerous complacency and radical questionings of what is safe and conformist in works as diverse as Twilight (Stephenie Meyer) and A Girl Walks Home Alone (Ana Lily Amirpur), as well as by Anne Rice and Poppy Brite. It also introduces and critically explores postcolonial, vampire and neohistorical Gothic and women’s ghost stories.

Philosophical anthropology --- Affective and dynamic functions --- Ethics of family. Ethics of sexuality --- Sociology of culture --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Sociology --- Didactics of the arts --- Film --- Psycholinguistics --- Literature --- vampieren --- psychologie --- sociologie --- postkolonialisme --- Gothic --- cultuur --- feminisme --- film --- literatuur --- vrouwen --- seksualiteit --- gender --- psycholinguïstiek --- wereldliteratuur --- creatief schrijven --- Meyer, Stephenie --- Carter, Angela --- Mootoo, Shani --- Maurier, du, Daphne --- Dunmore, Helen --- Brodber, Erna --- Oyeyemi, Helen --- Moss, Kate --- Hopkinson, Nalo --- Amirpour, Ana Lily --- Hill, Susan --- Rhys, Jean --- Gothic fiction (Literary genre) --- Gothic horror tales (Literary genre) --- Gothic novels (Literary genre) --- Gothic romances (Literary genre) --- Gothic tales (Literary genre) --- Romances, Gothic (Literary genre) --- Detective and mystery stories --- Horror tales --- Suspense fiction --- History and criticism. --- 1900-1999