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, Armonìa 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.
| ISBN: | 9780791461235 |
| Publication date: | 15th July 2004 |
| Author: | Dianna C Niebylski |
| Publisher: | SUNY Press an imprint of State University of New York Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 193 pages |
| Series: | SUNY Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture |
| Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism Gender studies: women and girls |