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What Women Lose
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

What Women Lose

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: Peter Lang

This book examines novels by women from the anglophone, francophone, and hispanophone Caribbean that focus on marginalized female characters who migrate to metropolitan centers. The novels studied require cultural, historical, sociological, anthropological, and geographic readings to fully explore the complexity of the characters as they confront the varied and changing challenges, hardships, and pleasures of the diaspora. The critical approach focuses on the characters' attempts to hold on to acceptable realities by assuming the appropriate interpersonal, social, and cultural masks that allow them to find a sense of significance in their interior, domestic, and community lives.

Malady and Genius
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 242

Malady and Genius

Malady and Genius examines the recurring theme of self-sacrifice in Puerto Rican literature during the second half of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries. Interpreting these scenes through the works of Frantz Fanon, Kelly Oliver, and Julia Kristeva, Benigno Trigo focuses on the context of colonialism and explains the meaning of this recurring theme as a mode of survival under a colonial condition that has lasted more than five hundred years in the oldest colony in the world. Trigo engages a number of works in Latino and Puerto Rican studies that have of late reconsidered the value of a psychoanalytic approach to texts and cultural material, and also different methodologies including post-colonial theory, cultural studies, and queer studies.

Crímenes domésticos
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 150

Crímenes domésticos

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Domestic Crimes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 116
Inhabiting the Impossible
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 331

Inhabiting the Impossible

Artists and scholars celebrate the development, diversity, and ethics of Puerto Rican experimental dance

Angeles Mastretta
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 278

Angeles Mastretta

The first major study on the works of the Mexican novelist, Angeles Mastretta, demonstrating the rich complexity and range of the author's fiction and essays. The Mexican novelist, Angeles Mastretta [b. 1949], has only recently received serious critical attention largely because her work has been seen as 'popular' and therefore inappropriate for academic study. This first major work tobe published on Mastretta seeks to demonstrate the rich complexity and range of the author's fiction and essays. In the tradition of Post-Boom Latin American women's writing, Mastretta's texts are motivated by a desire to speak primarily of the silenced experiences and voices of women. Two of her novels, refere...

Affect, Archive, Archipelago
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 299

Affect, Archive, Archipelago

Inspired by Édouard Glissant’s and Marta Aponte Alsina’s critical-creative work, this book explores how Puerto Rico’s affective archive of Caribbean relations, from the nineteenth century through the twenty-first, has envisioned and embodied decolonization and sovereignty in relation to the archipelagic, the sea, and Caribbean regionalism. The book’s transdisciplinary archive includes historical figures and their legacies; political and activist thought, textuality, and action as performative interventions; and performance and live arts pieces, objects, materialities, and texts as political/activist actions. Affect, Archive, Archipelago begins by delving into the historical-politica...

Geografías de lo perdido
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 132

Geografías de lo perdido

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018
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  • Publisher: Unknown

"Cuando ya pensábamos que todo estaba perdido -el lenguaje, el país, la identidad, el género, hasta el número- Vanessa Vilches escribe "por suerte hay brisa y un fuerte olor a pan". Y el tono, distópico y de pesadilla, de estas excelentes Geografías de lo perdido que, a veces son relatos y a veces no, se abre a la esperanza. Antes de que llegue la esperanza, transitamos por la mácula de las nuevas tecnologías: sin pantallas estamos perdidos, experimentamos la compulsión permanente de estar en otra parte y tachamos lo que pasa aquí y ahora. En estos textos todo es abstracción y a la vez todo se ve de modo perfectamente nítido, todo es surreal y sin embargo cotidiano [...] Los tiem...

De(s)madres o el rastro materno en las escrituras del yo
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 222
Woman as Witness
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 234

Woman as Witness

Testimonial narrative is considered to be both a constant in Latin American literature, as well as one of the most prominent features of the post-boom writing of the 1980s and 1990s; women have successfully assimilated this form and currently dominate the testimonial genre in Latin America. The essays in this volume provide an orientation to the woman-centered view of this genre by inquiring into the critical and theoretical debate on the subject as well as analyzing specific nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American women's testimonial texts. Woman as Witness also includes selections from two testimonial works by Argentine women to advance the creation of a canon of Latin American feminist testimonial.