Gender and Allegory in Transamerican Fiction and Performance

Gender and Allegory in Transamerican Fiction and Performance
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 251
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ISBN-10 : 9780230616219
ISBN-13 : 0230616216
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Book Synopsis Gender and Allegory in Transamerican Fiction and Performance by : K. Sugg

Download or read book Gender and Allegory in Transamerican Fiction and Performance written by K. Sugg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-10-27 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By rethinking contemporary debates regarding the politics of aesthetic forms, Gender and Allegory in Transamerican Fiction and Performance explores how allegory can be used to resolve the "problem" of identity in both political theory and literary studies. Examining fiction and performance from Zoé Valdés and Cherríe Moraga to Def Poetry Jam and Carmelita Tropicana, Sugg suggests that the representational oscillations of allegory can reflect and illuminate the fraught dynamics of identity discourses and categories in the Americas. Using a wide array of theoretical and aesthetic sources from the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean, this book argues for the crucial and potentially transformative role of feminist cultural production in transamerican public cultures.


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