Overview

Gender in Hispanic Literature and Visual Arts provides an interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective on gender within Hispanic film and literature. The contributors analyze the relationship between the historical and social contexts of various Hispanic countries—including Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain, and Uruguay—and the effects of their contexts on their representations of gender. This book examines gender-based violence, transvestism, lesbianism, (mis)representation, indigenism, dissent, identity, and voice as a means of better understanding the meaning and implications of gender within the diversity of people and cultures that comprise the Hispanic world.

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Author:   Tania Gómez ,  Patricia Bolaños-Fabres ,  Christina Mougoyanni Hennessy ,  Emilia Barbosa
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.304kg
ISBN:  

9781498521215

ISBN 10:   1498521215
Pages:   212
Publication Date:   17 July 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Identity, Consciousness, and Transgression in Argentinian Fiction: Luisa Valenzuela, Matilde Sánchez and Samanta Schweblin Christina Mougoyanni Hennessy Chapter 2 Gender Under the Lens in Elena Poniatowska’s La piel del cielo Olga Colbert Chapter 3 Genre, Gender, and the Translation of Latin America: A Reevaluation of Memoirs of Latin American Women Intellectuals Silvia M. Roca-Martínez Chapter 4 Bisexuality as Diversity in Recent Latin American Narrative: Juan García Ponce and Jaime Bayly Anca Koczkas Chapter 5 Gender Alterity and Marginality: Rosa Montero’s Temblor and Historia del rey Transparente Patricia Bolaños-Fabres Gender in Hispanic Visual Arts Chapter 6 Contemporary Women’s Lives: Colombian Film as a Mirror of the Nation’s Socioeconomic and Cultural Context Tania Gómez Chapter 7 Flipping the Tortillera: Sandra Monterroso’s Hybrid Iconography in Tus tortillas mi amor Emilia Barbosa Chapter 8 Rewriting the Pictorial Canon from the Intersection of Gender and Ekphrasis Christina Karageorgou-Bastea Chapter 9 Gendered Memories and Visual Recollections: Political Incarceration in Memorias de Mujeres Elizabeth Rivero Chapter 10 Fashioning Transitions and Designing Identities in El Calentito Marcela T. Garcés

Reviews

Gender in Hispanic Literature and Visual Arts is up-to-date and highly informative. The contributors in this collection analyze how the issue of gender is articulated in a number of genres including autobiography, fiction, documentary, feature films, and the visual arts. Their insightful chapters intersect in unexpected ways and show how some female artists have achieved self-empowerment by using techniques of their craft to break the mold. But, just as importantly, this book shows how women explore art as a thought experiment in order to demonstrate how other ways of being perform, and in this way, breathe the future into the present. -- Stephen M. Hart, University College London Gender in Hispanic Literature and Visual Arts is an eclectic collection of essays that takes the ongoing conversations about gender in the Hispanic world into the twenty-first century. With essays on both literary and visual culture from several Latin American countries as well as Spain-all of which pay critical attention to a wider array of gender identities than the traditional dichotomy of masculine/feminine-this volume documents the shifting paradigms and pressing new questions of contemporary gender and sexuality studies. -- Mary Beth Tierney-Tello, Wheaton College Gender in Hispanic Literature and Visual Arts examines cultural discourses on women in the Hispanic World and offers insightful and nuanced analyses of contemporary literary works, films, performances, and paintings. It is an important contribution to the study of gender identities and cultural production. -- Carmen Moreno-Nuno, University of Kentucky

Author Information

Patricia Bolaños-Fabres is associate professor of Hispanic studies and gender studies at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University. Tania Gómez is associate professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University. Christina Mougoyanni Hennessy is associate professor of Hispanic studies and gender studies at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University.

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