num_pages: 204
description: 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, Armonía 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.
language: English
title: Humoring Resistance: Laughter and the Excessive Body in Latin American Women's Fiction
titlecomplete: Humoring Resistance: Laughter and the Excessive Body in Latin American Women's Fiction (Suny Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture)
publisher: State University of New York Press