BIBFRAME Work

Title

Sex and nation in transatlantic literatures

Type

• Text
• Monograph

Contribution

• Szczeszak-Brewer, Agata (author )

Subject

• Nationalism in literature (LCSH)
• Sex role in literature (LCSH)
• Literature--History and criticism (LCSH)
• Gender identity in literature (LCSH)

Language

• English

Classification

• LCC: PN56.N19 S93 2025 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
• DDC: 801/.95082 (Assigner: dlc)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• bibliography
• index

Summary

"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, Zoë Wicomb, JM Coetzee, Andrea Levy, Patrick McCabe, David Diop"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Introduction. Writers respond to nationalisms' gender panic -- James Joyce's womanly men" -- Virginia Woolf : modernism, nation, proportion -- Cross-dressing putos in Witold Gombrowicz's Trans-Atlantyk -- Queering the South : nation, race, and sex in Jean Toomer's Cane -- States of emergency : regulating sex and nation in Richard Rive's fiction. -- South African nationhood, incest, and miscegenation in Jm Coetzee's In the heart of the country -- Intimate violence and tribalism in Patrick Mccabe's Breakfast on Pluto -- White allyship and narrative dissonance in Andrea Levy's Small island -- Queering the trenches in David Diop's At night all blood is black -- Conclusion. Looking into the future.

Authorized Access Point

Szczeszak-Brewer, Agata. Sex and nation in transatlantic literatures

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