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• W791908733 abstract "Elina Valovirta, Sexual Feelings: Reading Anglophone Caribbean Women's Writing through Affect (Cross/Cultures 174, Rodopi, 2014)The trope of rape is a common one in postcolonial literature, by women in the Caribbean as elsewhere. It serves as a metaphor for the abuse and exploitation of the colonial subject as well as the legacy of sexism and extreme violence against women still present in many postcolonial societies (India is one example that comes to mind).In this study, the Finnish scholar Elina Valovirta focuses not exclusively on rape, but on sexuality in general (the expectation of virginity for girls, the double standard for adultery, alternative sexualities and so on). Valovirta offers thorough and sensitive readings of the primary Caribbean texts she has selected (Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home, Sleeping's Beauty and the Prince Charming and Louisiana by Erna Brodber, Buxton Spice by Oonya Kempadoo, Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat, It Begins with Tears by Opal Palmer Adisa and Cereus Blooms at Night by Shani Mootoo).The book is divided into seven parts. The first consists of a general discussion in which the author explains her choice of texts and describes the theoretical approach she favours, which may perhaps best be described in her own words as 'an affective phenomenology of reading tak[ing] into account the role of emotions in meaning-production' (Valovirta, 187).Barthes, Bakhtin, Cixous, Foucault, Irigaray and Co. are given the requisite nods, but the theoretical foundation supporting Valovirta's analysis is vaster still, based on works by Sara Ahmed, Sue Campbell, Evelyn O'Callaghan, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Lynne Pearce and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, to name only a few. Extensive quotation and paraphrasing of these writers unfortunately hampers the fluency of Valovirta's own text, which is otherwise clear and insightful.The second section, titled 'Reading the Ambivalence of Sexuality in Transition', discusses the work of Brodber and Kempadoo and focuses on the secrecy, isolation and shame often accompanying the change from girlhood to womanhood (for example, sexual awakening, menarche).Valovirta discusses Brodber's symbol of the kumbla - a protective and sheltering physical space or mental state - at great length; it is here that young Nellie of Jane and Louisa retreats in her confusion 'in order to escape what she experiences as the threatening nature of sexuality' (Valovirta, 52). The shelter offered by the kumbla is ambivalent; by 'dwelling in it for too long, Nellie becomes its victim and her health begins to crumble' (53). The discussion is genuinely interesting, but authorial explanations occasionally stumble under the weight of their own wordiness: 'Erna Brodber's Jane and Louisa, with its notoriously difficult and elusive kumbla figure, shows us how the reader becomes positioned by its polysemy into a world of ambivalences where negotiations of new meanings and understandings of sexuality and emotions are negotiated' (Valovirta, 71).In Buxton Spice, set in Guyana, young Lula and her friends attempt to educate themselves by inspecting a sleeping man's penis, reading Man and Woman in secret and making their first exploratory forays into the world of masturbation. Actual coitus between Judy, a white girl of Portuguese descent, and a black man considered her social inferior leads to scandal within the community, so that the themes of race, class and gender intertwine.The third section of the study treats 'Ways of Reading Sexual Shame, Violence and Pain'. Valovirta focuses on three key incidents in which female sexuality is associated with shame, destruction and pain. In the first, Sophie, a young Haitian girl in Danticat's Breath, Eyes and Memory, takes her own virginity with a pestle in order to liberate herself from her mother's 'testing' ritual (insertion of a finger to ascertain that the hymen is still intact). In the second incident, set in rural Jamaica, Monica, a prostitute in Opal Palmer Adisa's It Begins with Tears who is having an affair with a neighbour's husband, is subjected to revenge by 'peppering' in which hot peppers are inserted into all her bodily orifices by a group of livid women. …" @default.
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