Queer Rebellion in the Novels of Michelle Cliff

Queer Rebellion in the Novels of Michelle Cliff
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 278
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ISBN-10 : 9781443893435
ISBN-13 : 1443893439
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Book Synopsis Queer Rebellion in the Novels of Michelle Cliff by : Kaisa Ilmonen

Download or read book Queer Rebellion in the Novels of Michelle Cliff written by Kaisa Ilmonen and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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