UID:
almafu_9959677495102883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 274 pages) :
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illustrations
ISBN:
1-283-06567-3
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9786613065674
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0-8223-9306-9
Series Statement:
Perverse modernities
Content:
This exploration of the poetry and prose of Caribbean women writers reveals in their imagery a rich tradition of erotic relations between women.
Note:
Description based on print version record
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Introduction : the spring of her look -- "Rose is my mama, Stanfaste is my papa" : hybrid landscapes and sexualities in Surinamese women's oral poetry -- Darkening the lily : the erotics of self-making in Eliot Bliss's Luminous isle -- Blue countries, dark beauty : opaque desires in the poetry of Ida Faubert -- At the river of washerwomen : work, water, and sexual fluidity in Mayotte Capecia's I am a Martinican woman -- Transforming sugar, transitioning revolution: male womanhood and lesbian eroticism in Michelle Cliff's No telephone to heaven -- Breaking hard against things : crossing between sexual and revolutionary politics in Dionne Brand's No language is neutral.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-4777-6
Additional Edition:
Print version: Tinsley, Omise'eke Natasha, 1971- Thiefing sugar. Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2010 ISBN 9780822347569
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0822347563
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822393061
