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When asked if being a woman had a negative impact on her ability to succeed as a writer, Argentine poet Alejandra Pizarnik stated that, even if not a physical impediment, being a woman in a patriarchal society is 'a tragedy' in itself. She followed this comment by saying: 'What matters is what we do with our own tragedies'. Beyond sex assigned at birth, feminized bodies around the world share a similar phenomenological experience, which is dictated by a complicated relationship to space. Before setting pen to paper, the woman writer, a monster herself within patriarchal discourse, must confront the role society has set for her. For a writer in a feminized body, thus, the act of writing never begins with a tabula rasa but with a refusal and a challenge, an ushering out of the supposed 'eden' of the domestic. The question of the women-writer's space is further exacerbated when considering matters of intersectionality. The poetics of space and place change within the confines of different geopolitical structures and their relations amongst each other. How do they shift when the center becomes de-centered and writing stems not from a place of political power but from the quieted voices of minor literature, queer and racialized bodies or subalternized latitudes? This volume will attempt to address these questions with input from a diverse group of scholars dealing with an equally diverse corpus. North and Latin America converse with Europe while 'genre' literature, minor literature and 'gendered' literatures take center stage. By taking into account a wide array of cultural objects, from poetry and children's literature to Gothic tales and television shows, this collection of articles reveals the profound link between space and the female experience through the lens of art and literature.

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""The Insides of the Outsider"" offers a lucid, transnational map of how women transform space: unhousing the Gothic home, queering the city, and deterritorializing borders. A timely and compelling volume for scholars of literature, space, and feminist theory. Dr. Carmen Araujo Hispanic Literatures & Cultures University of California, Santa Barbara The volume ""The Insides of the Outsider: Women and the Poetics of Space and Place"" explores the significance of the encounter between subject and object, relying on the ideas of Deleuze and Guattari as a central point of reference. The contributors aim to deterritorialize ideological assemblages by focusing on the unresolved movements of voices marked by the chiaroscuros of concealment and ambush, the horror and novelty of technology, suffocating and rarefied homes, and the struggle between self-perception and the gaze of others. The reader will find articles seeking to uncover the revolutionary potential of the eros in literature, cinema, and artistic expression, aiming to make space speak and even reach the unknown territories of the cosmic. The authors navigate a wide range of aesthetics, moving from the Baroque, Gothic, and Naturalism to the Neo-avant garde, alongside the most recent theoretical currents contributed by colonial studies, queer theory, affect theory, posthumanism, black studies, and migration studies. The volume maintains the historical rigor demanded by putting into dialogue the varied linguistic and cultural zones of authors from the Hispanic, Lusophone, Francophone, and Anglophone worlds, and the connections required for a global appreciation of poetics that exceed and question the scale of the intimate in the redefinition of space. Alexis Hernando University of Pennsylvania The articles in ""The Insides of the Outsider: Women and the Poetics of Space and Place"" by Mariangela Ugarelli (ed.) move through the in-between spaces where feminine subjectivities navigate homes, institutions, diaspora, the limits of life and death, and desire-challenging borders both visible and unseen. This stunning work powerfully explores the role of female and queer subjects in creating alternative spaces and how their movement through becomes an act of transgression and self-assertion. This book offers a bold, intimate portrait of feminine experience in flux across diverse traditions, periods, and literary movements. Dr. Rocío del Águila Gracey College of William and Mary

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Mariangela Ugarelli is a writer, artist, and scholar born in Lima, Perú. Ugarelli received her Ph.D. in Spanish from Johns Hopkins University and her B.A. in Hispanic Literature from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. As a writer, she has published two short story collections, 'Artilugios' (2022) and 'Fieras' (2023), which explore her interest in the intersection between the Gothic and representations of nature. Her academic work encompasses Latin American Gothic, horror and other so-called minor literatures, the female Gothic, and eco-Gothic as well as Latin American visual culture. Ugarelli's scholarly work on said topics has been published in journals such as 'Gothic Nature', 'Brumal', and 'Latin American Literary Review'. She currently resides in the United States, where she is writing her third book.

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