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1 online resource (169 pages)

Contents

COVER; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: feminism, queer theory and heterosexuality; Part One: Revisiting the spinster; Chapter 1 'Becoming my own ghost': spinsterhood and the 'invisibility' of heterosexuality in Sarah Waters' Affinity; Chapter 2 Telling tales out of school: spinsters, scandals and intergenerational heterosexuality in Zoë Heller's Notes on a Scandal; Part Two: Transgressive female heterosexuality; Chapter 3 Queering Alice, killing Lolita: feminism, queer theory and the politics of child sexuality in A.M. Homes's The End of Alice.

Chapter 4 Unauthorised reproduction: class, pregnancy and transgressive female heterosexuality in Alan Warner's Morvern CallarPart Three: Reproducing heterosexuality; Chapter 5 'First one thing and then the other': rewriting the intersexed body in Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex; Chapter 6 Imitations of life: cloning, heterosexuality and the human in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go; Bibliography; Index.

Summary

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.

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Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-156) and index.

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Subject

Heterosexuality in literature.

Heterosexual women.

English fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.

American fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.

Feminist literary criticism.

LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

LITERARY CRITICISM -- Feminist.

Heterosexual women.

American fiction.

English fiction.

Feminist literary criticism.

Heterosexuality in literature.

Chronological Term

2000 - 2099

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Other Form:

Print version: Carroll, Rachel. Rereading Heterosexuality : Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2012 9780748639557

ISBN

9780748649082 (electronic bk.)

0748649085 (electronic bk.)

9780748639557

0748639551

9780748649273