Humoring resistance
Subtitle: laughter and the excessive body in contemporary Latin American women's fiction
By: Dianna C. Niebylski.
Series: SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
Subjects: Spanish American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Spanish American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century; Comic, The, in literature; Laughter in literature; Women in literature; Dissenters in literature; Body, Human, in literature
Description: "This book explores 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-187) and index.