WOMEN, ETHNICITY AND NATIONALISMS IN LATIN AMERICA
Editor: Natividad Gutiérrez Chong
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0754649250
The relationship between gender and nationalism is a compelling issue that is receiving increasing coverage in the scholarly literature. With case studies covering Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Mexico, this is the first book to explore these links in the Latin American context. It includes contributions from Latin American scholars to offer a unique and revealing view of the most important political and cultural issues. It debates multiculturalism and gender in the construction of the nation, and the struggles of ethnic women to participate politically in their communities. It also includes studies of the first Mexican filmmaker, Mimi Derrba and the Ecuadorian indigenous heroine Dolores Cacuango.
KILLING SPANISH: LITERARY ESSAYS ON AMBIVALENT U.S. LATINO/A IDENTITY
Author: L. Sandin
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 978-1403963949
In this intelligent monograph for women’s studies, literature and Latin American studies, Sandin asserts that there is a significant ambivalence surrounding identity in the works of Latino writers such as Cristina Garcia, Edward Rivera, and Abraham Rodriguez. Sandin incorporates the theories of allegory and ‘double identity’ to talk about the fragmentation of the Latino psyche. Using examples from literature ranging from Cuban American Cristina Garcia’s The Aguero Sisters to Puerto Rican Rosario Ferre’s Maldito amor, Sandin finds that fragmented ethnic identification is an area that is just beginning to be explored within the analysis of U.S. Latino fiction.
LATINO URBAN ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE WORK OF ELENA PADILLA (LATINOS IN CHICAGO AND MIDWEST)
Editors: Mérida M. Rúa & 6 more
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN-13: 978-0252077630
This study builds upon the classic work of anthropologist Padilla to examine constructions of space and identity among Latinos. The volume includes an annotated edition of Padilla’s 1947 University of Chicago master’s thesis, “Puerto Rican Immigrants in New York and Chicago: A Study in Comparative Assimilation,” which broke with traditional urban ethnographies and examined racial identities and interethnic relations. Also included are original essays that foreground the significance of Padilla’s early study of Latinos in Chicago. Contributors discuss the implications of her groundbreaking contributions to urban ethnographic traditions and the development of Puerto Rican and Latina/o studies.
TELL ME THE DREAM AGAIN: REFLECTIONS ON FAMILY, ETHNICITY, AND THE SACRED WORK OF BELONGING
Author: Tasha Jun
Publisher: Tyndale Momentum
ISBN-13: 978-1496459572
Tasha Jun has always been caught between worlds: American and Korean, faith and doubt, family devotion and fierce independence. As a Korean American, she wandered between seemingly opposing worlds, struggling to find a voice to speak and a firm place for her feet to land.
Told with tender honesty and compelling prose, this volume is a memoir-in-essays exploring what it means to be biracial in America today, the joy and healing that comes with embracing every part of who we are, and how our identity in Christ is tightly woven with the unique colors, scents, and culture he’s given us.
Women’s Studies from Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
WOMEN AND COMEDY HISTORY, THEORY, PRACTICE
Editors: Peter Dickinson & others.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1611476439
Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice presents the most current international scholarship on the complexity and subversive potential of women’s comedic speech, literature, and performance. Earlier comedy theorists such as Freud and Bergson did not envision women as either the agents or audiences of comedy, only as its targets. Only more recently have scholarly studies of comedy begun to recognize and historicize women’s contributions to—and political uses of—comedy. The essays collected here demonstrate the breadth of current scholarship on gender and comedy, spanning centuries of literature and a diversity of methodologies.
ON THE EDGE OF THE RIVER SAR
Author: Rosalía de Castro
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1611477375
Thanks to the most recent works in Rosalian and Galician studies, we are now able to recuperate and reevaluate Rosalía de Castro’s poems in their original languages for the more radical symbolism and themes they foreground related to gender, sexuality, race and class as they inform individual and national identities. However, although Castro’s poetic corpus is widely accessible in its original languages, these important features of her verses have yet to be given voice in the small number of English translations of only a sub-set of her works that have been produced in the last century.
EMBODYING DIFFERENCE: SCRIPTING SOCIAL IMAGES OF THE FEMALE BODY IN LATINA THEATRE
Author: Linda Saborío
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1611476347
Embodying Difference: Scripting Social Images of the Female Body in Latina Theatre explores contemporary theatrical productions by Latina dramatists in the United States and focuses on the effects that neoliberal politics, global market strategies, gender formation, and racial and ethnic marginalization have had on Latinas. Through the analysis of select plays by dramatists Nao Bustamante, Coco Fusco, Anne García-Romero, Josefina López, Cherríe Moraga, Linda Nieves-Powell, Dolores Prida, and Milcha Sánchez-Scott, Embodying Difference shows how the bodies of Latinas are represented on stage in order to create an image of Latina consolidation.
THE LIFE OF CATALINA DE ERAUSO, THE LIEUTENANT NUN: AN EARLY MODERN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Author: Sonia Pérez-Villanueva
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-61147-660-6
This volume examines Vida y sucesos de la Monja Alférez as a form of autobiography through a comparative study with early-modern secular life narratives. In order to conduct this comparative analysis, four theoretical parameters are established for assessing autobiographical texts. These parameters (coincidence of narrator and protagonist, historical referentiality, whether the subjective narration has a plausible basis in the experience and belief structure of the narrator and the intention of the narrator to tell an autobiographical truth) are based upon the critical approach of hybridity and intersubjectivity, but also draw upon related theoretical work.
