Desire Beteen Women in Caribbean Literature [Hardcover]

Relations between women - like the branches and roots of the mangrove - twist around, across, and within others as they pervade Caribbean letters. Desire between Women in Caribbean Literature elucidates the place of desire between women in Caribbean letters, compelling readers to rethink how to read the structures and practices of sexuality.Introduction: The Epistemology of the Mangrove 1. Jos? Mart?'s Foundational Failure 2. Lost Idyll: Mayotte Cap?cia's Je suis Martiniquaise 3. Replaced Origins: Maryse Cond?'s Moi Tituba sorci?re&noire de Salem 4. Plotting Desire between Girls: Jamaica Kincaid's At the Bottom of the River 5. Sexual Alternatives in Patricia Powell's Me Dying Trial 6. The Love of Neighbors: Rosario Ferr?'s Eccentric Neighborhoods/Vecindarios ecc?ntricos Conclusion

Valenss engrossing, convincing, and eminently readable study repositions the Caribbean literary texts she analyses in new, uncharted directions. As she explores both traditional and innovative territory for womens desires, relationships, and positions, she forges new ground beyond heteronormative discourses and readings, allowing for anyone interested in gender studies, the Caribbean, and postcolonialism to gain new perspectives and engaging insights into these texts. (Mary McCullough, Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, newprairiepress.org, Vol. 41 (2), 2017)?

Keja Valens is Associate Professor of English at Salem State University, USA. Desire Between Women in Caribbean Literature ranges effortlessly and impressively across Francophone, Hispanic, and Anglophone Caribbean literary worlds in order to reveal a much more inclusive model of sexual relations and desires between women than is commonly anticipated or discussed. Valens's comparative methodology and her emphasis on plural and plastic sexual behaviours work together to narrate a regional female erotic culture through literature that makes an insightful contribution to Caribbean sexuality studies. - AlC(