Francina Cousins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3742364 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francina Cousins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francina |
| FAMILY NAME | Cousins |
| SIGNATURE | COUSINS F |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-8891-6287 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Is not easy to walk with so much power in your flesh: Uses of the erotic in Tanya Shirley's poetry
This article analyses the representation of the sexual bodies and erotic desire of Jamaican black women in selected poems by Tanya Shirley. It draws on postcolonial feminist theories and Caribbean and diasporic cultural studies, especially Audre Lorde's theory of the erotic as power, as it analyses idiosyncratic sources and strategies of women's erotic empowerment. In her poetry, Shirley is careful to highlight the volatility of eroticism as a fo…
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Is not easy to walk with so much power in your flesh: Uses of the erotic in Tanya Shirley's poetry
This article analyses the representation of the sexual bodies and erotic desire of Jamaican black women in selected poems by Tanya Shirley. It draws on postcolonial feminist theories and Caribbean and diasporic cultural studies, especially Audre Lorde's theory of the erotic as power, as it analyses idiosyncratic sources and strategies of women's erotic empowerment. In her poetry, Shirley is careful to highlight the volatility of eroticism as a fo…
Anthropology (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Biology (1 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (1 works) · Cultural Studies (1 works) · Feminism (1 works) · Fishery (1 works) · Flesh (1 works) · Gender Studies (1 works) · Human sexuality (1 works)