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This volume explores the character of the domestic worker in
twenty-first century Latin American cinema and analyzes how recent
filmic representations of the housemaid question the
marginalization of domestic servants, in particular women, by
making them the center of their narratives, their families, and
society. The essays in this book posit the female domestic worker
as an emergent subjectivity, a complex character who problematizes
and contests the hierarchical power structures within the family
dynamics and new socioeconomic orders found in contemporary Latin
America. Readers will find a variety of representations across the
continent as well as transnational commonalities of the cinematic
figure and role of the housemaid, including the negotiation of a
multilayered politics of affection in the framework of prevalent
paternalism, and the complex and contradictory dynamic between
private and public spaces, where domestic paid labor occupies a
central role in maintaining gender, class, and ethnic inequalities.
This volume explores the character of the domestic worker in
twenty-first century Latin American cinema and analyzes how recent
filmic representations of the housemaid question the
marginalization of domestic servants, in particular women, by
making them the center of their narratives, their families, and
society. The essays in this book posit the female domestic worker
as an emergent subjectivity, a complex character who problematizes
and contests the hierarchical power structures within the family
dynamics and new socioeconomic orders found in contemporary Latin
America. Readers will find a variety of representations across the
continent as well as transnational commonalities of the cinematic
figure and role of the housemaid, including the negotiation of a
multilayered politics of affection in the framework of prevalent
paternalism, and the complex and contradictory dynamic between
private and public spaces, where domestic paid labor occupies a
central role in maintaining gender, class, and ethnic inequalities.
Thorough and dynamic, this chronicle focuses on the people of
Australia's Torres Strait Island and their evolving struggles for
recognition. Underscoring the voices of the Torres Strait Islanders
themselves, this account explores the indigenous response to
colonization and outlines two decades worth of clashes with
governments and other entities who exploited the islanders' seabed
resources. This examination also discusses the debates over the
islanders' attempts to recover their rights--to make decisions on
their own behalf as well as to reacquire the land, sea, and fish
supply--once governmental policies became less dismissive of
indigenous aspirations and concern for their welfare increased.
Between 1942 and 1945, Torres Strait Islander women experienced the
fears and uncertainties of living virtually on Australia's front
line during the Pacific War. Some were forcibly evacuated with
their children to the mainland, where they found themselves still
restricted as to where and how they could live. Others were left on
their tiny islands, deserted in the end by government and church,
despite the constant threat of Japanese advance through the Torres
Strait. Many of the women remember here that traumatic time: hiding
from the bombers and watching the dogfights overhead, struggling to
feed and clothe their families, and praying continually for the
safe return of their men-folk and for peace again in their beloved
island homes.
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Violets (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Osborne Dye
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R680
Discovery Miles 6 800
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Columbia University Contributions To Education, No. 873.
This is a new release of the original 1924 edition.
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