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West Indian literature (Spanish)

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This collection of essays explores concepts present in literatures in French that, since the 2007 manifesto, more and more critics, suspicious of the term Francophonie, now prefer to designate as littérature-monde (world literature). The book shows how the three movements of antillanité, créolité and littérature-monde each in their own way break with the past and distance themselves from the hexagonal centre. The critics in this collection show how writers seek to represent an authentic view ...

West Indian literature (French) --- French literature --- West Indian literature --- History and criticism --- West Indian authors

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Caribbean literature (English) --- West Indian literature (English) --- History and criticism

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Caribbean literature (English) --- Littérature antillaise (anglaise) --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- West Indian literature (English) --- -History and criticism --- Littérature antillaise (anglaise) --- West indian literature (english)

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The present book offers a reader-theoretical model for approaching anglophone Caribbean women's writing through affects, emotions, and feelings related to sexuality, a prominent theme in the literary tradition. How does an affective framework help us read this tradition of writing that is so preoccupied with sexual feelings? The novelists discussed in the book - chiefly Erna Brodber, Opal Palmer Adisa, Edwidge Danticat, Shani Mootoo, and Oonya Kempadoo - are representative of various anglophone Caribbean island cultures and English-speaking backgrounds. The study makes astute use of the theoretical writings of such scholars as Sara Ahmed, Milton J. Bennett, Sue Campbell, Linden Lewis, Evelyn O'Callaghan, Lizabeth Paravisini - Gebert, Lynne Pearce, Elspeth Probyn, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Rei Terada, as well as the critical writings of Adisa, Brodber, Kempadoo, to shape an individual, focused argument. The works of the creative artists treated, and this volume, hold sexuality and emotions to be vital for meaning-production and knowledge-negotiation across differences (be they culturally, geographically or otherwise marked) that challenge the postcolonial reading process.

West Indian literature (English) --- Sex in literature. --- English literature --- West Indian literature --- History and criticism. --- Women authors. --- Caribbean literature (English) --- Women authors