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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, Zoë 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.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: "Writers Respond To Nationalisms' Gender Panic"
Chapter 1: "James Joyce's Womanly Men"
Chapter 2: "Virginia Woolf: Modernism, Nation, Proportion"
Chapter 3: "Cross-Dressing Putos In Witold Gombrowicz's Trans-Atlantyk"
Chapter 4: "Queering The South: Nation, Race, And Sex In Jean Toomer's Cane"
Chapter 5: "States Of Emergency: Regulating Sex And Nation In Richard Rive's Fiction"
Chapter 6: "South African Nationhood, Incest, And Miscegenation In Jm Coetzee's In The Heart Of The Country"
Chapter 7: "Intimate Violence And Tribalism In Patrick Mccabe's Breakfast On Pluto"
Chapter 8:White Allyship And Narrative Dissonance In Andrea Levy's Small Island
Chapter 9: Queering The Trenches In David Diop's At Night All Blood Is Black
Conclusion: Looking Into The Future
