Global Literature and Gender

Auteur

Jenni Ramone is Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Global Literatures at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Previous books include Postcolonial Literatures in the Local Literary Marketplace: Located Reading (2020) and Postcolonial Theories (2011).

Texte du rabat

Offering a thorough introduction to notions of gender in contemporary global literature, Global Literature and Gender uses postcolonial theories alongside theories of space and place, theories of globalization, and reference to the Posthuman and the Anthropocene as competing narratives of the contemporary.

Contenu

Introduction: Twenty-First Century Global Literature and Gender

Chapter 1: Female Reproductive Labour: Mothering, Breastfeeding, Wetnursing, Surrogacy

Chapter 2: Object(ification)s: Women as Objects / Women and Objects

Chapter 3: Contingent Masculinities in Glocalization: Incarceration, Transport, and Delivery

Chapter 4: Island Identities, Trading, and Sex Tourism: Undoing Masculinities

Chapter 5: Transing: Twenty-first Century Global Texts ask 'What if?' about (Trans)Gender

Chapter 6: Boundary-Crossing and Transgender: Gender as Mobile

Conclusion: Gender, the Anthropocene, and the Posthuman