Resistant Bodies in the Cultural Productions of Transnational Hispanic Caribbean Women
Reimagining Queer Identity
By (author) Irune del Rio Gabiola
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Publication date:
27 December 2016Length of book:
168 pagesPublisher
Lexington BooksISBN-13: 9781498520782
Resistant Bodies in the Cultural Productions of Transnational Hispanic Caribbean Women: Reimagining Queer Identity examines the art created by several Caribbean women who use literature, film, graphic novels, music, testimonios, photographs, etc. to convey social justice, democracy, and new ways of re/imaging marginal identities. In using Chela Sandoval’s theories on methodologies of the oppressed, Irune del Rio Gabiola argues how the tactics Sandoval offers can be productively applied to the cultural productions analyzed. The author explores how the protagonists of all the cultural productions this book focuses on developing tactics to create new possibilities and alternatives for self-fashioning. Particularly, del Rio Gabiola reconsiders concepts such as shame, failure, unbecoming, hermeneutics of love or flexible bodies as methodologies of the oppressed that propose decolonizing emancipatory techniques in a transnational arena.
Through centering queer bodies and experiences as a site of knowledge production, Resistant Bodies in the Cultural Productions of Transnational Hispanic Caribbean Women: Reimagining Queer Identity, is a welcomed addition to the emergent body of literature centered on the critical arts and social change.