Humoring Resistance: Laughter and the Excessive Body in Latin American Women's Fiction

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HUMORING RESISTANCE SUNY Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture Jorge J. E. Gracia and Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal, editors HUMORING RESISTANCE / Laughter and the Excessive Body in Contemporary Latin American Women’s Fiction Dianna C. Niebylski S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y O F N E W Y O R K P R E S S Published by State University of New York Press, Albany©2004 State University of New York All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission. No part of this book may be stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means including electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission in writing of the publisher For information, address State University of New York Press, 90 State Street, Suite 700, Albany, NY 12207 Production by Kelli M. Williams Marketing by Anne M. Valentine Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Niebylski, Dianna C. Humoring resistance : laughter and the excessive body in contemporary Latin American women’s fiction / Diana C. Niebylski. p. cm. — (SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-6123-8 (hc : alk. paper) 1. Spanish American literature—Women authors—History and criticism. 2. Spanish American literature—20th century—History and criticism. 3. Comic, The, in literature. 4. Laughter in literature. 5. Women in literature. 6. Dissenters in literature. 7. Body, Human, in literature. I. Title. II. Series. PQ7081.5.N54 2004 863'.6099287'098—dc22 2004041625 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For my brother Javier and my sisters Faviana and Jackie, with whom I share all kinds of humor / For my son Christopher, who has learned to humor the world, and laugh at himself, in several languages ...