Transgression and taboo
Subtitle: critical essays
By: edited by by Vartan P. Messier and Nandita Batra with an introduction by Nandita Batra and Vartan P. Messier.
Contributors: Batra, Nandita.; Messier, Vartan P.
Publisher: College English Association, Caribbean Chapter Publications
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Mayaguez, P.R
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: Taboo in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Transgressing taboos : Tess Gallagher's Erotic of grief / Susan R. Bowers; title: Running down these mean streets and sex : bending masculitnity in Down these mean streets and short eye / Veronica Crichlow; title: Radical moments : Jane Barker and Mary Shelley on incest / Elizabeth Delaney; title: Handing back shame : incest and sexual confession in Sapphire's Push / Elizabeth Donaldson; title: Breaking the love laws : sibling incest in Midnight's children and The God of small things / Laura G. Eldred; title: Adorno's taboo, and its transgression / Steven Helmling; title: Women, sexuality and the black breast : seeming acts of transgression in popular culture and their consequences : the case of the 2003 VMA and the 2004 Superbowl half-time show / David J. Leonard; title: Eve Ensler and the subversive vagina / Thea Leticia Mateu; title: The corrupting isles : writing the Carribbean as the locus of transgression in British literature of the 18th century / Anita Raghunath; title: Turning a blind eye : homosexuality in Caribbean literature / Donna smith; title: Shave 'em dry : Lucille Bogan's Queer blues / Lorna Wheeler.