Sex and Nation in Transatlantic Literatures

Name: Sex and Nation in Transatlantic Literatures
Brand: Bloomsbury Academic
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By Agata Szczeszak-Brewer

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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, weaving a trans-national and trans-Atlantic network of influences despite the pronounced geopolitical and cultural differences. With wide geographical scope and a comparative approach, Szczeszak-Brewer delves into the metaphorical currency of male impotence, sexual aggression and gender-nonconforming characters in nationalist narratives from Ireland, the U.S, Poland, France, Britain, South Africa and Senegal, in the work of writers such as James Joyce, Witold Gombrowicz, Jean Toomer, Bessie Head, Zoèe Wicomb, JM Coetzee, Andrea Levy, Patrick McCabe, David Diop"--

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Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 248
Release Date:: 2025-06-12
Publication Date:: 2025-06-12
Publisher:: Bloomsbury Academic
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1350323330
ISBN13:: 9781350323339
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 540 g
Height:: 161 cm
Width:: 240 cm
Thickness:: 18 cm

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