Sex and Nation in Transatlantic Literatures
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-32333-9 (ISBN)
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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 across different geopolitical and cultural contexts.
Szczeszak-Brewer delves into the metaphorical currency of male impotence and sexual aggression in nationalist narratives. She examines the place of gender-nonconforming characters in literature from Ireland, the US, Poland, France, Britain, South Africa and Senegal, in the work of writers including: James Joyce, Witold Gombrowicz, Jean Toomer, Bessie Head, Zoë Wicomb, J. M. Coetzee, Andrea Levy, Patrick McCabe and David Diop.
Aligning queer and gender perspectives with discussions of white supremacy, this book examines the urgency for contemporary geopolitics to imagine new discourses of community against the backdrop of a rise in neo-nationalisms steeped in homophobic and misogynistic rhetoric.
Agata Szczeszak-Brewer is Professor of English and John P. Collett Chair in Rhetoric at Wabash College, USA where she teaches 20th-century World Literatures, Gender Studies, and Creative Writing. She has published two books—Empire and Pilgrimage in Conrad and Joyce (2010) and Critical Approaches to Joseph Conrad (2015), as well as critical essays and creative nonfiction. She co-edited a special issue of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies on Irish and South African literary and cultural intersections. Her 2023 memoir in essays The Hunger Book won the Gournay Prize.
Acknowledgements
Introduction: “Writers Respond To Nationalisms’ Gender Panic”
Chapter 1: “James Joyce’s Womanly Men”
Chapter 2: “Virginia Woolf: Modernism, Nation, Proportion”
Chapter 3: “Cross-Dressing Putos In Witold Gombrowicz’s Trans-Atlantyk”
Chapter 4: “Queering The South: Nation, Race, And Sex In Jean Toomer’s Cane”
Chapter 5: “States Of Emergency: Regulating Sex And Nation In Richard Rive’s Fiction”
Chapter 6: “South African Nationhood, Incest, And Miscegenation In Jm Coetzee’s In The Heart Of The Country”
Chapter 7: “Intimate Violence And Tribalism In Patrick Mccabe’s Breakfast On Pluto”
Chapter 8:White Allyship And Narrative Dissonance In Andrea Levy’s Small Island
Chapter 9: Queering The Trenches In David Diop’s At Night All Blood Is Black
Conclusion: Looking Into The Future
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 12.6.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Global Perspectives in Irish Literary Studies |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-32333-0 / 1350323330 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-32333-9 / 9781350323339 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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