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Gender and Allegory in Transamerican Fiction and Performance

Gender and Allegory in Transamerican Fiction and Performance

Paperback

Literary CriticismGeneral DramaGeneral Gender Studies

ISBN10: 134937265X
ISBN13: 9781349372652
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Dec 9 2015
Pages: 241
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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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