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Sex and Nation in Transatlantic Literatures - Global Perspectives in Irish Literary Studies Szczeszak-Brewer, Dr Agata (Professor of English and John P. Collett Chair in Rhetoric, Wabash College, USA)
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Sex and Nation in Transatlantic Literatures - Global Perspectives in Irish Literary Studies
Szczeszak-Brewer, Dr Agata (Professor of English and John P. Collett Chair in Rhetoric, Wabash College, USA)
Nationalist and tribal cohesion in Ireland, South Africa, the US and elsewhere often relies on an absence of female and gender-nonconforming bodies in the public life.
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 across different geopolitical and cultural contexts.
Szczeszak-Brewer delves into the metaphorical currency of male impotence and sexual aggression in nationalist narratives. She examines the place of gender-nonconforming characters in literature from Ireland, the US, Poland, France, Britain, South Africa and Senegal, in the work of writers including: James Joyce, Witold Gombrowicz, Jean Toomer, Bessie Head, Zoe Wicomb, J. M.
Coetzee, Andrea Levy, Patrick McCabe and David Diop.
Aligning queer and gender perspectives with discussions of white supremacy, this book examines the urgency for contemporary geopolitics to imagine new discourses of community against the backdrop of a rise in neo-nationalisms steeped in homophobic and misogynistic rhetoric.
192 pages, 10 b/w images
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | June 12, 2025 |
| ISBN13 | 9781350323339 |
| Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Pages | 248 |
| Dimensions | 164 × 238 × 20 mm · 540 g |
| Language | English |
