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189 Index / Abjection, 29, 48, 50, 95, 96, 97, 104, 105, 98–102, 110, 115, 117, 119, 122, 123, 159, 161, 168 Adams, Rachel, 128 Albee, Edgard, 89 Allende, Isabel, 153 Alvarez, María Angélica, 41, 158 Amado, Jorge, 3 Anderson, Benedict, 150, 164, 167 Angel, Albalucía, 153 Apte, Mahadev, 45 Austen, Jane, 20 Bakhtin, Mikael, 1, 22, 43, 48, 52, 54, 75, 86, 88, 111, 114, 121, 128, 164, 166 Balsamo, Anne, 141 Barreca, Regina, 11 Barthes, Roland, 68 Bassuk, Ellen, 78, 165 Bataille, Georges, 12, 29, 30, 111, 121, 154 Baudelaire, Charles, 20, 121, 122, 123, 156, 166, 169 Bauer, Dale, 156 Becker, Susanne, 61, 62, 162 Behar, Ruth, 159 Behn, Aphra, 155 Benítez-Rojo, Antonio, 54, 160 Bergson, Henri, 21, 83, 84, 156, 166 Berman, Sabina, 153 Bilbija, Ksenija, 75, 164, 166, 167 Bodies deliquescent, 98–105 entropic, 26, 29, 131 ill, 7, 32, 69, 97, 99, 100, 114, 115, 116, 117, 120, 121, 165 incontinent, 7, 26, 29, 31, 48, 51, 82, 100 lawless, 5, 7, 16, 26, 131 mutating, 5, 131–139, 147 torpid, 5, 7, 26, 28, 76, 77, 80, 82, 88 Bodily fluids, 4, 5, 10, 15, 27, 28, 34, 47, 48, 54, 83, 85, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 107, 108, 117, 123, 132, 140, 159, 161, 168, 169 Boling, Becky, 66 Boom, Latin American novel of , 24, 113, 114, 115, 169 Booth, Wayne, 89, 133, 167 Borders Bossuet, Bishop Jacques, 18 and humor, 4, 5, 8, 9, 14, 16, 54, 97, 100, 120, 128, 129, 146, 169 Bordo, Susan, 13, 14 Borges, Jorge Luis, 3, 135, 161 Borinsky, Alicia, 4, 5, 7, 8, 29, 82, 125–148, 150, 151, 153, 156, 169, 170, 171 Braidotti, Rosi, 132, 139, 171 Bryce Echenique, Alfredo, 3, 153 Buitrago, Fanny, 153 Butler, Judith, 139, 149, 156, 171 Byron, Lord, 19 190 INDEX Cabrera Infante, Guillermo, 3, 54 Carnivalesque, 2, 3, 4, 10, 11, 16, 17, 22, 27, 28, 29, 34, 35, 36, 38, 40, 41, 42, 44, 47, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 57, 66, 68, 69, 71, 75, 76, 81, 86, 87, 88, 89, 91, 92, 98, 122, 128, 130, 145, 146, 147, 150, 151, 157, 158, 160, 163, 164, 166, 167, 170 Cassirer, Ernst, 16, 17 Castellanos, Rosario, 3, 16, 154, 156 Castillo, Debra, 3, 11, 90, 153, 166 Cazamian, Louis, 16 Cervantes, Miguel de, 16, 156 Chaplin, Charlie, 83 Chaucer, 15 Cities, and women’s humor, 8, 9, 20, 23, 26, 29, 57, 58, 59, 60, 76, 102, 119, 120, 123, 125, 126, 127, 128, 131, 132, 133, 134, 137, 140, 141, 142, 146, 148 Cixous, Hélène, 6, 7, 26, 100, 154, 167 Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, 117, 169 Colaizzi, Giulia, 140 Comedy, 17, 20, 25, 44, 155 Attic, 14 romantic, 40, 44 Community, and women’s humor, 2, 45, 63, 83, 86, 89, 128, 136, 146, 148, 150, 155, 156 Cortázar, Julio, 3, 24, 25, 113, 114, 144, 156, 171 Cosse, Rómulo, 109, 111, 114, 168 Coutinho, Sonia, 125 Coward, Rosalind, 66 Cranny-Francis, Anne, 44 Cruz, Anne, 49, 155, 169 Cyborgs, 141, 142 Damrosch, David, 14 Daroqui, María Julia, 54, 61, 63, 160, 161 Darwin and laughter, 21, 83 Dasch, J. Michael, 71 Davis, Natalie Zemon, 15 de la Parra, Teresa, 155 De Palma, Brian, 55, 56, 161 De Ruggieri, Francesca, 141 Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari, 29, 139, 176 Derrida, Jacques, 26 Diaspora in Latin American discourses, 131, 132, 136, 147 Díaz, Gwendolyn, 163, 166 Díaz, Jes˙s, 54, 73, 74, 164 Disney, Walt, 87, 89 Doane, Mary Anne, 29, 39, 40, 41, 67, 158 Donoso, José, 169 Douglas, Mary, 48 Dryden, 17 Eltit, Diamela, 150 English, James, 15, 18, 20, 25, 31, 46, 71, 153, 154 Escaja, Tina, 36, 158 Esquivel, Laura, 4, 6, 8, 26–52, 82, 99, 130, 150, 157, 158, 159 Ewers, Hanns Heinz, 118, 119, 169 Exhibitionism, and women, 68–72 Families, and women’s humor, 1, 2, 9, 16, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 43, 45, 48, 49, 51, 62, 63, 64, 65, 99, 110, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 122, 136, 137, 150, 151, 159 Farce, 64, 87, 89, 91, 166, 167 Félix, María, 39, 157 Fernández de Lizardi, 23, 156 Film noir, 55–60 Fishburn, Evelyn, 120 Fitts, Alejandra, 169 Flay, Joseph, 156 Flora, Cornelia Butler, 158 Fordyce, John, 18 fotonovela, 39, 45, 158 [18.217.139.141] Project MUSE (2024...

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