Performative bodies, hybrid tongues
Subtitle: race, gender, sex and modernity in Latin America and the Maghreb
By: Julian Vigo.
Series: Hispanic studies: culture and ideas -- 33
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783039119516
Subjects: Spanish American literature -- History and criticism; North African literature (French) -- History and criticism; Human body in literature; Race in literature; Gender identity in literature; Sex in literature; Nationalism in literature; Modernism (Literature) -- Latin America; Modernism (Literature) -- Africa, North
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Western theories of gender and sex: performative or real?; title: Language and the body in Barthes, Khatibi and Sarduy: the intertextual and intersexual; title: The body of Fitna and the intractable feminine: exile, nomadism, memory and the bi-langue in Maghrebian literature; title: The violence of representation in Latin American literature: realismo mágico and neobarroco bodies of gender, race, sickness and terror; title: Hybrid bodies and border crossings: nationalism and modernity in Morocco and Mexico.