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Author: Irune del Rio Gabiola
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint: Lexington Books
Dimensions:
Width: 15.90cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 23.80cm
Weight: 0.449kg
ISBN: 9781498520775
ISBN 10: 1498520774
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 27 December 2016
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Irune del Rio Gabiola's work analyzes the lesbian body as site that re-envisions notions of un/becoming, queer family, space, and belonging. Drawing on Chela Sandoval's methodology of the oppressed, del Rio 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. -- Dara E. Goldman, University of Illinois Through centering queer bodies and experiences as a site of knowledge production, Resistant Bodies in the Cultural Productions of Transnational Hispanic Caribbean Women: Reimagining Queer Identity, is a welcomed addition to the emergent body of literature centered the critical arts and social change. -- Tanya Saunders, University of Florida
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. -- Dara E. Goldman, University of Illinois Through centering queer bodies and experiences as a site of knowledge production, Resistant Bodies in the Cultural Productions of Transnational Hispanic Caribbean Women: Reimagining Queer Identity, is a welcomed addition to the emergent body of literature centered on the critical arts and social change. -- Tanya Saunders, University of Florida Scholar Irune del Rio Gabiola is best known for her queer feminist perspective and interdisciplinarity. In Resistant Bodies, a meticulous sociocultural contextualization supports the solid construction of densely theoretical arguments, interweaving themes of family/home, corporality, philosophy, shame, and pride. Analyzing diverse media from photography to hip-hop, del Rio Gabiola celebrates the transnational performative empowerment of queer women of the Spanish speaking Caribbean. -- Sara E. Cooper, California State University, Chico
Irune del Rio Gabiola's work analyzes the lesbian body as site that re-envisions notions of un/becoming, queer family, space, and belonging. Drawing on Chela Sandoval's methodology of the oppressed, del Rio 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. -- Dara E. Goldman, University of Illinois Through centering queer bodies and experiences as a site of knowledge production, Resistant Bodies in the Cultural Productions of Transnational Hispanic Caribbean Women: Reimagining Queer Identity, is a welcomed addition to the emergent body of literature centered the critical arts and social change. -- Tanya Saunders, University of Florida Scholar Irune del Rio Gabiola is best known for her queer feminist perspective and interdisciplinarity. In Resistant Bodies, a meticulous sociocultural contextualization supports the solid construction of densely theoretical arguments, interweaving themes of family/home, corporality, philosophy, shame, and pride. Analyzing diverse media from photography to hip-hop, del Rio Gabiola celebrates the transnational performative empowerment of queer women of the Spanish speaking Caribbean. -- Sara E. Cooper, California State University, Chico
Author Information
Irune del Rio Gabiola is associate professor of Spanish and director of the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Program at Butler University.
