Rereading Heterosexuality: Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction - Hardcover

Rachel Carroll

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0748639551 ISBN 13: 9780748639557

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2012

Synopsis

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), Zoe 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

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Review:

Rachel Carroll makes us 'see' heterosexuality in new and different ways so that we can no longer take it as read. The novels chosen for discussion make interesting bedfellows and the analysis is distinctive and fresh: this will be essential reading for anyone working in contemporary fiction, gender and sexuality. --Dr Susan Watkins, School of Cultural Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University

About the Author:

Rachel Carroll is Principal Lecturer in English at Teesside University, UK. Her research on twentieth century and contemporary British and American writers, including Angela Carter, Don DeLillo and Flannery O'Connor, has been published in journals such as Textual Practice, Journal of American Studies and Journal of Gender Studies. Her research interests also extend to film and television adaptations; her edited collection, Adaptation in Contemporary Culture: Textual Infidelities, was published in 2009.

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0748639551
• ISBN 13: 9780748639557
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 168