Humoring Resistance, livre ebook

Analyzes the explosive connections among strategic uses of humor, women's bodies, and resistance in fiction by Latin American women writers.

Analyzes the explosive connections among strategic uses of humor, women's bodies, and resistance in fiction by Latin American women writers.

Contextualizing theoretical debates about the political uses of gendered humor and female excess, this book explores bold 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, Armonía 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.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Challenging Humor Theory with the Body's "Humors"
2. Incontinent Bodies, Mixed Humor:
Laura Esquivel
3. Provocative Bodies, Hard-Edged Humor:
Ana Lydia Vega
4. Torpid Bodies, Skeptical Humor:
Luisa Valenzuela
5. Sick Bodies, Corrosive Humor:
Armonia Somers
6. Mutating Bodies, Entropic Humor:
Alicia Borinsky
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index