Transnational Borderlands in Women's Global Networks The Making of Cultural Resistance

by Sierra, Marta; Román-Odio, Clara

• ISBN13: 9780230109810
• ISBN10: 0230109810
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-05-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Transnational Borderlands in Women's Global Networksinvestigates the implications of transnational feminist methodologies at multiple levels: collective actions, theory, pedagogy, discursive, and visual productions. The esteemed contributors gathered in this volume address a substantial gap in the field of transnational feminisms; namely, the absence of a voice that links social and theoretical outcomes to the politics of representation in literature, visual art, discourses of rights and citizenships, and pedagogy.

Author Biography

Clara Romn-Odio is a Professor of Spanish, Modern Languages, and Literatures at Kenyon College. She is the author of Octavio Paz en los debates crticos y estticos del siglo XX, the co-editor of Global and Local Geographies: The (Dis)locations of Contemporary Feminisms. Marta Sierra is an Associate Professor of Spanish, Modern Languages, and Literatures at Kenyon College. She is the co-editor of Global and local Geographies: The (Dis)locations of Contemporary Feminisms and her publications have appeared in Revista de Estudios Hispnicos, Revista Iberoamericana, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispnicos, and Latin American Literary Review.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
Series Editor's Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction
Introduction: Transnational Borderlands in Women's Global Networks: The Making of Cultural Resistance	p. 3
Globalization, Transnationalisms, and the Politics of Representation in the Borderlands
Transnational Feminism, Globalization, and the Politics of Representation in Chicana Visual Art	p. 23
Markings on the Walls: Writing in Opposition in Alicia Gaspar de Alba's Desert Blood	p. 45
Global Patagonia: Belén Gache's Nomadic Writings	p. 77
Family Imaginaries and Postmemory in Chilean Narrative: Andrea Jeftanovic's Escenario de guerra and Lina Meruane's Cercada	p. 99
Iraqi Women, Jewish Men, and Global Noises in Two Texts by Ya'qub Balbul	p. 119
Transnational Decentering of Human/Women's Rights
Race, Gender, and Human Rights: A Glimpse into the Transnational Feminist Organization of Afro-Brazilian Women	p. 141
Shaping Political Discourse on Women's Rights: The Role of Women in the Amendment of Gender Policies in Turkey	p. 165
Trouble in the Global Village: A Snapshot of LGBT Community in Eastern Europe	p. 179
Pedagogies of Crossing and Dissent
The Vagina Monologues: Theoretical, Geopolitical, and Pedagogical Concerns	p. 203
The Long Table Model: Bringing Transnational Feminist Debates to a Small Midwestern University	p. 221
Notes on Contributors	p. 241
Index	p. 245
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