Sexuality, Gender and Nationalism in Caribbean Literature

by Kate Houlden

This book is the first to focus exclusively on issues of gender and sexuality in a range of post-war novels from the Anglophone Caribbean. Concentrating on the 1950s to the mid 1970s, it highlights the period's diversity of sexual concerns. New readings of seminal figures like Samuel Selvon and George Lamming are offered, in tandem with discussion of innovative, lesser-studied authors such as Andrew Salkey, Oscar Dathorne and Rosa Guy. Whereas...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367869349
• ISBN13: 9780367869342
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"