Resistant Bodies in the Cultural Productions of Transnational Hispanic Caribbean Women

Category

Gender studies, gender groups

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Wordery

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Lexington books

Resistant Bodies in the Cultural Productions of Transnational Hispanic Caribbean Women : Lexington Books : 9781498520775 : 1498520774 : 27 Dec 2016 : Resistant Bodies in the Cultural Productions of Transnational Hispanic Caribbean Women: Reimagining Queer Identity examines the art created by several Caribbean women who use literature, film, graphic novels, music, testimonios, photographs, etc. to convey social justice, democracy, and new ways of re/imaging marginal identities. In using Chela Sandoval's theories on methodologies of the oppressed, Irune del Rio Gabiola argues how the tactics Sandoval offers can be productively applied to the cultural productions analyzed. The author explores how the protagonists of all the cultural productions this book focuses on developing tactics to create new possibilities and alternatives for self-fashioning. Particularly, del Rio Gabiola reconsiders concepts such as shame, failure, unbecoming, hermeneutics of love or flexible bodies as methodologie

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