Niebylski Humoring Resistance

Laughter and the Excessive Body in Latin American Women's Fiction
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8495-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 204 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture

Analyzes the explosive connections among strategic uses of humor, women's bodies, and resistance in fiction by Latin American women writers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Niebylski, Dianna C.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Challenging Humor Theory with the Body's "Humors"
2. Incontinent Bodies, Mixed Humor:
Laura Esquivel
3. Provocative Bodies, Hard-Edged Humor:
Ana Lydia Vega
4. Torpid Bodies, Skeptical Humor:
Luisa Valenzuela
5. Sick Bodies, Corrosive Humor:
Armonia Somers
6. Mutating Bodies, Entropic Humor:
Alicia Borinsky
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dianna C. Niebylski is Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Social Theory at the University of Kentucky and the author of The Poem on the Edge of the Word: The Limits of Language and the Uses of Silence in the Poetry of Mallarmé, Rilke, and Vallejo.