Humoring resistance [[electronic resource] ] : laughter and the excessive body in contemporary Latin American women's fiction / / Dianna C. Niebylski
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| Autore: |
Niebylski Dianna C. <1957->
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| Titolo: |
Humoring resistance [[electronic resource] ] : laughter and the excessive body in contemporary Latin American women's fiction / / Dianna C. Niebylski
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| Pubblicazione: | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2004 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (204 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 863.6099287098 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Humoring resistance |
| ISBN: | 0-7914-8495-5 |
| 1-4237-3993-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910819322503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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