Lexington Books
Pages: 196
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Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-4985-2119-2 • Hardback • December 2015 • $114.00 • (£88.00)
978-1-4985-2121-5 • Paperback • July 2017 • $53.99 • (£42.00)
978-1-4985-2120-8 • eBook • December 2015 • $51.00 • (£39.00)
Patricia Bolaños-Fabres is associate professor of Hispanic studies and gender studies at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University.
Tania Gómez is associate professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University.
Christina Mougoyanni Hennessy is associate professor of Hispanic studies and gender studies at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University.
Chapter 1 Identity, Consciousness, and Transgression in Argentinian Fiction: Luisa Valenzuela, Matilde Sánchez and Samanta Schweblin
Christina Mougoyanni Hennessy
Chapter 2 Gender Under the Lens in Elena Poniatowska’s La piel del cielo
Olga Colbert
Chapter 3Genre, Gender, and the Translation of Latin America: A Reevaluation of Memoirs of Latin American Women Intellectuals
Silvia M. Roca-MartínezChapter 4Bisexuality as Diversity in Recent Latin American Narrative: Juan García Ponce and Jaime Bayly
Anca Koczkas
Chapter 5 Gender Alterity and Marginality: Rosa Montero’s Temblor and Historia del rey Transparente
Patricia Bolaños-Fabres
Gender in Hispanic Visual Arts
Chapter 6 Contemporary Women’s Lives: Colombian Film as a Mirror of the Nation’s
Socioeconomic and Cultural Context
Tania Gómez
Chapter 7Flipping the Tortillera: Sandra Monterroso’s Hybrid Iconography in Tus tortillas mi
amor
Emilia Barbosa
Chapter 8Rewriting the Pictorial Canon from the Intersection of Gender and Ekphrasis
Christina Karageorgou-Bastea
Chapter 9 Gendered Memories and Visual Recollections: Political Incarceration in Memorias de
Mujeres
Elizabeth RiveroChapter 10Fashioning Transitions and Designing Identities in El Calentito
Marcela T. Garcés
Gender in Hispanic Literature and Visual Arts is up-to-date and highly informative. The contributors in this collection analyze how the issue of gender is articulated in a number of genres including autobiography, fiction, documentary, feature films, and the visual arts. Their insightful chapters intersect in unexpected ways and show how some female artists have achieved self-empowerment by using techniques of their craft to break the mold. But, just as importantly, this book shows how women explore art as a thought experiment in order to demonstrate how other ways of being perform, and in this way, breathe the future into the present.
— Stephen M. Hart, University College London
Gender in Hispanic Literature and Visual Arts is an eclectic collection of essays that takes the ongoing conversations about gender in the Hispanic world into the twenty-first century. With essays on both literary and visual culture from several Latin American countries as well as Spain—all of which pay critical attention to a wider array of gender identities than the traditional dichotomy of masculine/feminine—this volume documents the shifting paradigms and pressing new questions of contemporary gender and sexuality studies.
— Mary Beth Tierney-Tello, Wheaton College
Gender in Hispanic Literature and Visual Arts examines cultural discourses on women in the Hispanic World and offers insightful and nuanced analyses of contemporary literary works, films, performances, and paintings. It is an important contribution to the study of gender identities and cultural production.
— Carmen Moreno-Nuño, University of Kentucky