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Resistant bodies in the cultural productions of transnational Hispanic Caribbean women : reimagining queer identity / Irune del Rio Gabiola.

Author/creator del Rio Gabiola, Irune
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoLanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2017]
Descriptionxx, 147 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Series Latin American gender and sexualities
Latin American gender and sexualities. ^A1325627
Contents Introduction: Dismantling cultural paradigms in search of inclusivity and revolutionary love -- Part I. Puerto Rico -- Shame and failure: positive narratives to re/image queer identity in the transnational Puerto Rican context -- A queer way of family life: narratives of time and space in Mayra Santos-Febres's Sirena Selena vestida de pena -- Part II. Cuba -- Divas, atrevidas y entendidas: Cuban hip-hop group Krudas Cubensi ConQueering love across the transnational space -- Unbecoming Cuban-American: ana analysis of Cristy Road's graphic narratives -- Part III. The Dominican Republic -- Flexible bodies in cyberspace: representations of dominicanidad in the art of Raquel Paiewonsky -- The lesbian body as home: queering Dominican women's experiences -- Conclusion: Emancipatory techniques in contemporary art in the transnational Caribbean context.
Abstract "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 methodologies of the oppressed that propose decolonizing emancipatory techniques in a transnational arena." -- Back cover.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 133-139) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2016959291
ISBN1498520774 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
ISBN9781498520775 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
ISBN(ebk.)
ISBN1498520782
ISBN9781498520782

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