03672nam 2200769Ia 450 991081932250332120200520144314.00-7914-8495-51-4237-3993-0(CKB)1000000000458387(OCoLC)62751434(CaPaEBR)ebrary10594696(SSID)ssj0000175248(PQKBManifestationID)11152257(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000175248(PQKBWorkID)10190149(PQKB)10181345(MiAaPQ)EBC3408369(OCoLC)62365177(MdBmJHUP)muse6158(Au-PeEL)EBL3408369(CaPaEBR)ebr10594696(OCoLC)923416204(DE-B1597)684322(DE-B1597)9780791484951(EXLCZ)99100000000045838720040106d2004 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrHumoring resistance laughter and the excessive body in contemporary Latin American women's fiction /Dianna C. Niebylski1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc20041 online resource (204 p.)SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and cultureBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7914-6123-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-187) and index.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 -- IndexContextualizing 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.Spanish American literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismSpanish American literature20th centuryHistory and criticismWomen and literatureLatin AmericaHistory20th centuryComic, The, in literatureLaughter in literatureWomen in literatureDissenters in literatureHuman body in literatureSpanish American literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Spanish American literatureHistory and criticism.Women and literatureHistoryComic, The, in literature.Laughter in literature.Women in literature.Dissenters in literature.Human body in literature.863.6099287098Niebylski Dianna C.1957-1650497MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819322503321Humoring resistance3999912UNINA