In this Book
- Humoring Resistance: Laughter and the Excessive Body in Latin American Women's Fiction
- Book
- 2004
- Published by: State University of New York Press
summary
Contextualizing theoretical debates about the political uses of gendered humor and female excess, this book explores bold new ways in which a number of contemporary Latin American women authors approach questions of identity and community. The author examines the connections among strategic uses of humor, women’s bodies, and resistance in works of fiction by Laura Esquivel, Ana Lydia Vega, Luisa Valenzuela, Armonía Somers, and Alicia Borinsky. She shows how the interarticulation of the comic and comic-grotesque vision with different types of excessive female bodies can result in new configurations of female subjectivity.
Table of Contents
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- Table of Contents
- p. vii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. 1-12
- Bibliography
- pp. 173-188
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791484951
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
62365177
Pages
204
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No