A01=Rachel Carroll
Author_Rachel Carroll
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contemporary literature
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feminism
gender studies
heterosexuality
queer
queer theory
Product details
- ISBN 9780748639557
- Weight: 407g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 04 Apr 2012
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Presents new perspectives on representations of female heterosexuality in selected contemporary British and American novels.Drawing on feminist and queer theories of sex, gender and sexuality, this study focuses on female identities at odds with heterosexual norms. In particular, it explores narratives in which the conventional equation between heterosexuality, reproductive sexuality and female identity is questioned. Key Features: • A timely exploration of the dynamic relationship between feminist and queer theory• Offers close analysis of influential novels by leading contemporary authors, including Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex (2002), Zoë Heller's Notes on a Scandal (2003), Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go (2005), Alan Warner's Morvern Callar (1995), A.M Homes's The End of Alice (1996), and Sarah Waters's Affinity (1999)• Topics range from spinsterhood and intergenerational sexuality to transgender and human cloning
Rachel Carroll is Reader in English at Teesside University, UK. She is author of Rereading Heterosexuality: Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction (Edinburgh University Press, 2012) and editor of Adaptation in Contemporary Culture: Textual Infidelities (Continuum, 2009) and Litpop: Writing and Popular Music (with Adam Hansen, Ashgate, 2014). Her research has been published in journals including Adaptation, Contemporary Women’s Writing, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Textual Practice and Women: a cultural review.
