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9780791461235

Humoring Resistance : Laughter and the Excessive Body in Latin American Women's Fiction

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    9780791461235

  • ISBN10:

    0791461238

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-06-23
  • Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

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Summary

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, Armonia 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.

Author Biography

Dianna C. Niebylski is Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Social Theory at the University of Kentucky.

Table of Contents

Challenging humor theory with the body's "humors"p. 13
Incontinent bodies, mixed humor : Laura Esquivelp. 31
Provocative bodies, hard-edged humor : Ana Lydia Vegap. 53
Torpid bodies, skeptical humor : Luisa Valenzuelap. 73
Sick bodies, corrosive humor : Armonia Somersp. 95
Mutating bodies, entropic humor : Alicia Borinskyp. 125
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