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Performative Bodies, Hybrid Tongues - Race, Gender, Sex and Modernity in Latin America and the Maghreb (Paperback, New edition)
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Performative Bodies, Hybrid Tongues - Race, Gender, Sex and Modernity in Latin America and the Maghreb (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas, 33
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This book reconsiders the body in literature and makes a case for
visual representation as a physical and gesticulative domain for
rethinking the constructions of gender, nationalism and sexuality.
Examining literary production from the eleventh century until the
present, the author argues that the body in contemporary North
Africa and Latin America serves as a physical and symbolic terrain
upon which sexual, textual, national, racial and linguistic
identities are vectored and through which postcolonial and
hegemonic antagonisms of power and identity are resolved. Rather
than embracing "third world" identity as a residual repository of
western thought, colonization and linguistic infusion, the author
suggests that the paradigm of cultural identity in the Maghreb and
Latin America is best understood through an examination of the
emergent corporeal articulations of subjectivity prevalent in these
literatures and visual cultures. The text examines the body as a
critical landscape through which the various discourses of
nationhood, gender and sexuality converge in order to construct a
reading of the social that neither amasses subjectivity as singular
under the rubric of the "third world", nor couches the other within
static notions of gendered, sexual or racial identities.
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