Lexington Books
Pages: 274
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Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-0-7391-9169-9 • Hardback • December 2014 • $133.00 • (£102.00)
978-1-4985-0876-6 • Paperback • June 2016 • $59.99 • (£46.00)
978-0-7391-9170-5 • eBook • December 2014 • $57.00 • (£44.00)
Subjects: Social Science / Gender Studies,
Literary Criticism / General,
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural,
Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory,
Social Science / Emigration & Immigration,
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies,
Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations,
Social Science / Women's Studies,
Social Science / Gay Studies,
Social Science / Culture,
Literary Criticism / Critical Theory / Postmodernism,
Social Science / Comparative Cultural Studies
Silvia Castro Borrego is lecturer of English and North American literature and culture at the University of Málaga.
Maria Isabel Romero Ruíz is lecturer in social history and cultural studies at the University of Málaga.
List of Contents
INTRODUCTION: GENDER STRIKE! SEEING GENDER AND SEXUAL IDENTITY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Silvia Pilar Castro Borrego and Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz, University of Málaga (Spain)
Part I: HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND SEXUAL WOUNDS
CHAPTER 1
“Queering Decoloniality: Epistemic Body Politics in Alicia Gaspar de Alba’s Desert Blood”
Laura Gillman, Virginia Tech University (USA)
CHAPTER 2
“Women’s Migration, Prostitution and Human Trafficking: Gender and Historical Approaches”
Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz, English Department, University of Málaga (Spain)
CHAPTER 3
“Representations of Transnational and Sexual Violence in Zoë Wicomb’s The One that Got Away”
Cynthia Lytle, Universitat de Barcelona (Spain)
CHAPTER 4
“Child Sexual Abuse and Traumatic Identity in Down by the River by Edna O’Brien”
María Elena Jaime de Pablos, Universidad de Almeria (Spain)
Part II: EPISTEMIC BODY POLITICS AND GENDER STRUGGLES
CHAPTER 5
“Ascribe, Divide – and Rule? (Some modes of intellectual liminality among ethnic, class, gender and medical Others)”
Logie Barrow, Bremen University (Germany)
CHAPTER 6
“Sex, Pain and Sickness: Performances of Identity through Spaces and Bodies”
Eduardo Barros Grela, Universida de da Coruña (Spain)
CHAPTER 7
“Interrogating the Posthuman in Contemporary US Science Fiction Films”
Rocío Carrasco Carrasco, University of Huelva (Spain)
CHAPTER 8
“Sexuality and Gender Relationships in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea”
Lucia Garcia Magaldi, University of Cordoba (Spain)
CHAPTER 9
“Lust and sexuality in Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Rhys’s Antoinette Mason”
María José Coperías Aguilar, Universitat de València (Spain)
Part III: THEORIZING DIFFERENCE: RECONFIGURING QUEER IDENTITIES
CHAPTER 10
“‘I am a Black Lesbian, and I am your sister’: Audre Lorde’s Theorizing Difference as Weapon for Survival and Change”.
Silvia Pilar Castro-Borrego, University of Málaga (Spain)
CHAPTER 11
“The inside and outside of gendered space. Gender migration and Little Britain from Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble to Beatriz Preciado’s Testo Yonqui”
David Walton, University of Murcia (Spain)
CHAPTER 12
“Shifting Bodies and Boundaries: Representations of Female Soccer Players and the Shortfall within the South-African Press”
Kate Joseph and Antje Schuhmann, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa)
CHAPTER 13
“Contemporary African American Women Playwrights and Homophobia: Before it Hits Home and Blues for an Alabama Sky”
Inmaculada Pineda Hernandez, University of Málaga (Spain)
Part IV: MIGRANT SEXUALITIES AND GENDER POLITICS
CHAPTER 14
“An Epic Migration: African American Women, Representation, Mis/Guided Identities, and Kathryn Stockett’s The Help”
Angelita Reyes, Arizona State University (USA)
CHAPTER 15
“Identity and Agency in I been in Sorrow’s Kitchen and Licked out all the Pots Marietta’s Sexual Self”
Concepción Parrondo Carretero, University of Málaga (Spain)
CHAPTER 16
“Muslim Women in the Third Space: Negotiating Diaspora, Sexuality and Identity from a Feminist Postcolonial Perspective”
Mariam Bazi, University of Málaga (Spain)
INDEX
Borrego and Ruiz have assembled a comprehensive and diverse collection of case studies, theoretical essays, and film, novel, and character analyses, all of which foreground cultural and literary approaches to understandings of identity. Contributors discuss topics such as migration and queerness; representations of anti-trafficking and prostitution; the trauma of incest; uses and transgressions of the physical body; (ab)uses of silence, power, and collective action; post-decolonialism and post-humanism; feminism, black feminism, and patriarchy; victimization and agency; and anti-essentialist, hybrid, and intersectional understandings of identity. Strengths of the collection include its focus on contemporary controversial issues tied to gender, sexuality, race, and location; its use of short, accessible, theoretically informed chapters; and its innovative, disruptive configurations of identity. These nuanced accounts consider how such configurations are constrained by, and may even perpetuate, stereotypical, dominant, and insidious understandings of identity. This book will appeal to multiple audiences and could be of great use in courses that focus primarily on personal and social identities. Summing Up: Recommended. All readers.
— Choice Reviews
Identities on the Move is a substantial and stimulating contribution to the ongoing debate on the construction of sexual and gender identities and their intricate relationship with body politics, gender performativity, gender relations, and queer/transgender agendas—all while intersecting with uneven power relations, (post)colonial (dis)encounters, and even (post)human conceptualizations. A welcome addition to the field!
— Mar Gallego, University of Huelva
This collection of essays will make you uncomfortable, challenging everything you thought you knew about gender theory, migration theory, queer theory, postcolonialism, geopolitics, and sex trafficking. Acknowledging yet questioning the foundations for theoretical approaches set out in the twentieth century, the sixteen essays included here stretch our consciousness and provoke new questions, new formulations, and explode our academic “givens”. A must-read.
— Justine Tally, University of La Laguna