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Record Nr.

UNINA9910958174403321

Autore

Niebylski Dianna C. <1957->

Titolo

Humoring resistance : laughter and the excessive body in contemporary Latin American women's fiction / / Dianna C. Niebylski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2004

ISBN

9780791484951

0791484955

9781423739937

1423739930

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture

Disciplina

863.6099287098

Soggetti

Spanish American literature - Women authors - History and criticism

Spanish American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Women and literature - Latin America - History - 20th century

Comic, The, in literature

Laughter in literature

Women in literature

Dissenters in literature

Human body in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-187) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Challenging Humor Theory with the “Humored” Body -- Incontinent Bodies, Mixed Humor: Laura Esquivel -- Provocative Bodies, Hard-Edged Humor: Ana Lydia Vega -- Torpid Bodies, Skeptical Humor: Luisa Valenzuela -- Sick Bodies, Corrosive Humor: Armonía Somers -- Mutating Bodies, Entropic Humor: Alicia Borinsky -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Contextualizing theoretical debates about the political uses of gendered humor and female excess, this book explores bold new ways in which a number of contemporary Latin American women authors approach questions of identity and community. The author examines the connections among strategic uses of humor, women's bodies, and



resistance in works of fiction by Laura Esquivel, Ana Lydia Vega, Luisa Valenzuela, Armonía Somers, and Alicia Borinsky. She shows how the interarticulation of the comic and comic-grotesque vision with different types of excessive female bodies can result in new configurations of female subjectivity.