Because of it, said Mr Achebe's best-known literary protegé, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, "I realised that people like me, girls with skin the colour of chocolate, whose kinky hair could not form ponytails, could also exist in literature".
"The idea that you'll meet someone who'll fulfil your desires, even if they're really kinky", Dr Hall explains, "is a powerful one".
Instead of writing about joyful tractorists who fulfil their production quotas, novelists these days write about kinky sex, drug addiction and extreme violence.
The screenwriting prize went to Anne Fontaine's sub-Chabrol murder story "Nettoyage à sec", in which the brilliant Miou-Miou plays the wife of a Belfort dry-cleaning shop-owner drawn with him into kinky pursuits.
As for the kinky stuff, Mr Robinson is referring to Mr Miller's vote not to micromanage the National Institutes of Health's budget for research into sexually-transmitted diseases.
She ends up falling for Beverly, beginning a kinky love affair with him and sharing not only her body but also her drug habit.
If you haven't been paying attention to the porn industry lately, it's important to understand that Deen is not your stereotypical star: Over his 11-year career, Deen has emerged as the unlikely darling of the industry – the kind of slender, sensitive guy you'd expect to see in a boy band rather than a kinky X-rated film.
Laurence Mitchell subtly shows you the painful self-mistrust of the paedophilic young man, establishing how (in a way) neither of these needy people want to play the kinky forfeit game the older one has instigated and that only Oscar's flash of clairvoyance about the man's married status serves to prevent.
His sophisticated work was counterbalanced by kinky bondage-style pants and bra harnesses.
I would have suggested that Two Tribes had at least one round in honour of the Frankie Goes to Hollywood "Two Tribes" video, in which the contestants donned rubber and PVC and slugged it out in a kinky Cold War-influenced manner.
Dornan has revealed how he researched his role by visiting a sex dungeon to learn about kinky fetishes.
