Resistant Bodies in the Cultural Productions of Transnational Hispanic Caribbean Women

Reimagining Queer Identity

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Av Irune del Rio Gabiola, Irune Del Rio Gabiola, Irune del Rio Gabiola

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2016-12-27
Mått159 x 238 x 16 mm
Vikt449 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieLatin American Gender and Sexualities
Antal sidor168
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498520775

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ContentsIntroduction: Dismantling Cultural Paradigms in search of Inclusivity and Revolutionary LovePuerto RicoChapter 1: Shame and Failure: Positive Narratives to Re/image Queer Identity in the Transnational Puerto Rican ContextChapter 2: A Queer Way of Family Life: Narratives of Time and Space in Mayra Santos-Febres’s Sirena Selena vestida de penaCubaChapter 3: Divas, Atrevidas y Entendidas; Cuban Hip Hop Group Krudas Cubensi ConQueering Love Across the Transnational SpaceChapter 4: Unbecoming Cuban-American: An Analysis of Cristy Road’s Graphic NarrativesThe Dominican RepublicChapter 5: Flexible Bodies in Cyberspace: Representations of Dominicanidad in the art of Raquel PaiewonskyChapter 6: The Lesbian Body as Home: Queering Dominican Women’s ExperiencesConclusion: Emancipatory Techniques in Contemporary Art in the Transnational Caribbean ContextReferencesAbout the Author

Irune del Rio Gabiola’s work analyzes the lesbian body as a site that re-envisions notions of un/becoming, queer family, space, and belonging. Drawing on Chela Sandoval’s ‘methodology of the oppressed,’ del Rio Gabiola carefully examines the work of Caribbean writers and artists and demonstrates how their particular representation of queer and transgendered bodies productively disrupts dominant notions of national identity and authority. This book brings together remarkable works from a diverse array of media (i.e. novel, graphic novel, hip hop, performance art) connected to their shared thematic attention to issues of gender, sexuality, and transnational mobility. del Rio Gabiola convincingly argues that these works, collectively, invite us to reimagine the power of the lesbian body.