Gender and Ethnicity in the Body Politics of Everyday Life: Leone Ross's All the Blood is Red/Gundelik Yasam Politikalarinda Cinsiyet Ve Etnik Kok: Leone Ross'un All the Blood is Red‪.‬

Abstract: In this her first novel All the Blood is Red (1996) Leone Ross, herself a hybrid of Jamaican/Scottish background, narrates the stories of three young contemporary black British women. Though the text vacillates between different times (the past and the present) and different locations (Jamaica and England), the focus is on the present day and on Britain. Several post-colonial critics have argued recently, that the new generation of black British writers has turned to the quotidian existence of contemporary life and has thus moved into the next phase, which has been referred to as a 'post-post-colonial state'. This novel is, therefore, representative of an articulation of a new and more complex sense of identity that explores the multicultural nature of British society. My discussion will in particular focus on the novel's treatment of body politics, gender politics and sexuality. More precisely, I will look at the following themes: physical, and psychological violence, the exploitation of the female body, sexual harassment, mixed and same-race relationships. Keywords: body politics, mixed and same race relationships, race relations/power relations, Passing, sexuality, identity formation, belonging.