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Intersectional Feminism in the Age of Transnationalism: Voices from
the Margins explores the limitations of the transnationalist
approach to feminism and questions the neoliberal emphasis on
individual freedom and consumer choice as the central goals of
feminist activism. The contributions to the volume discuss such
varied topics as fiction by Edwidge Dandicat, Judith Ortiz-Cofer,
and Diamela Eltit; visual art of Laura Aguilar and Maruja Mallo;
films directed by Lucrecia Martel; a TV series based on a novel by
Maria Duenas; the art-activism of Ani Ganzala and Zinha Franco; and
the philosophical thought of Gloria Anzaldua. All chapters proceed
from the belief in the continued usefulness of intersectionality as
a valuable category of critical analysis that is particularly
necessary at the time when the effects of neoliberal globalization
are undermining many familiar categories of critical inquiry.
Intersectional Feminism in the Age of Transnationalism: Voices from
the Margins explores the limitations of the transnationalist
approach to feminism and questions the neoliberal emphasis on
individual freedom and consumer choice as the central goals of
feminist activism. The contributions to the volume discuss such
varied topics as fiction by Edwidge Dandicat, Judith Ortiz-Cofer,
and Diamela Eltit; visual art of Laura Aguilar and Maruja Mallo;
films directed by Lucrecia Martel; a TV series based on a novel by
Maria Duenas; the art-activism of Ani Ganzala and Zinha Franco; and
the philosophical thought of Gloria Anzaldua. All chapters proceed
from the belief in the continued usefulness of intersectionality as
a valuable category of critical analysis that is particularly
necessary at the time when the effects of neoliberal globalization
are undermining many familiar categories of critical inquiry.
The book explores novels, essays and poetry published by Spanish
writers in response to the global economic crisis that began in
2008. Spain has been experiencing the crisis in a particularly
painful way, and the artistic response to these traumatic events
has been powerful and abundant. The literature of the crisis is
pointing to the probability that the crisis is not a temporary
problem that will be resolved once and for all if correct economic
measures are taken. To the contrary, there is every reason to
believe that the losses in long-term employment, the growing
precariousness of work, the increased economic insecurity, the
citizens' disillusionment with the capacity of democratic
governments to withstand the pressures of global capital, the
erosion of the welfare state, and the explosive growth in
inequality that we associate with the crisis are not likely to be
reversed. Spanish artists are exploring the reasons behind Spain's
particularly painful experience of the crisis and, at the same
time, are placing the suffering that the crisis is causing in Spain
within the context of global developments that are ensuring its
durability. Essays by Antonio Munoz Molina and Lucia Etxebarria,
novels by Rafael Chirbes, Luis Garcia Montero, Benjamin Prado, and
Belen Gopegui, and poetry by the artists who contributed to the
collections titled En legitima defensa. Poetas en tiempos de crisis
and Marca(da) Espana. Retrato poetico de una sociedad en crisis
point to the necessity of expanding our vision of the crisis from
the purely financial to a broader definition that will include the
changes the crisis augurs for the areas of human existence that lie
outside the strictly economic realm.
The book explores novels, essays and poetry published by Spanish
writers in response to the global economic crisis that began in
2008. Spain has been experiencing the crisis in a particularly
painful way, and the artistic response to these traumatic events
has been powerful and abundant. The literature of the crisis is
pointing to the probability that the crisis is not a temporary
problem that will be resolved once and for all if correct economic
measures are taken. To the contrary, there is every reason to
believe that the losses in long-term employment, the growing
precariousness of work, the increased economic insecurity, the
citizens' disillusionment with the capacity of democratic
governments to withstand the pressures of global capital, the
erosion of the welfare state, and the explosive growth in
inequality that we associate with the crisis are not likely to be
reversed. Spanish artists are exploring the reasons behind Spain's
particularly painful experience of the crisis and, at the same
time, are placing the suffering that the crisis is causing in Spain
within the context of global developments that are ensuring its
durability. Essays by Antonio Munoz Molina and Lucia Etxebarria,
novels by Rafael Chirbes, Luis Garcia Montero, Benjamin Prado, and
Belen Gopegui, and poetry by the artists who contributed to the
collections titled En legitima defensa. Poetas en tiempos de crisis
and Marca(da) Espana. Retrato poetico de una sociedad en crisis
point to the necessity of expanding our vision of the crisis from
the purely financial to a broader definition that will include the
changes the crisis augurs for the areas of human existence that lie
outside the strictly economic realm.
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