Gender and Allegory in Trans-American Fiction and Performance
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: August 19, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780230604766
Subjects: American - General; General; Social Science / Gender Studies; Social Science; Gender Studies; Sociology
Description: "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 Zoe Valdes and Cherrie 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."--Jacket.