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AfroLatinas as subject of scholarship is woefully underrepresented,
and this edited volume, AfroLatinas and LatiNegras: Culture,
Identity, and Struggle from an Intersectional Perspective, offers
an important and timely intervention. The consistent attention to
AfroLatinas' agency across all the chapters is empowering and
attentive to the difficult circumstances of asserting that agency,
and the tremendous breadth of what agency can look like. The
authors argue the analytical power of the concept of
Intersectionality while considering the hegemonic pressures on
AfroLatinidad and the essentializing moves that an intersectional
approach enables evading, overthrowing, and resisting systems of
power. Through the study of multiple cultural expressions of
Blackness, such as photography, colonial inquisition records,
dance, music, fiction, non-fiction, poetic memoir, and religious
expression, and throughout different region of the Americas, the
chapter contributors of this book consider the relationship that
social and historical processes, such as sovereignty and
colonialism, have on narrative and cultural production. Rosita
Scerbo, Concetta Bondi, and the contributors acknowledge that
racial and gender equity cannot exist without Intersectionality,
and the inclusion of activist voices broadens its reach and links
theory to praxis.
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.
LATINAS EN LOS MARGENES aspira a contribuir a la comprension del
genero de la autobiografia visual como medio de expresion y
reivindicacion del yo que ofrece a las artistas de minorias la
oportunidad de definirse a si mismas. A traves de narrativas
personales, peliculas, fotografias, obras de arte y producciones
digitales, estas obras exploran temas como la homofobia, la
identidad politica, la soberania nativa, la maternidad, la
identidad lesbiana y diferentes identidades culturales
minoritarias. Las diferentes historias visuales analizan los
diferentes matices de la identidad racial y sexual de mujeres que a
menudo se perciben como forasteras dentro de su propio pais. Estos
grupos marginados invitan a los lectores a desarrollar nuevas
formas de dialogos, practicas y alianzas transculturales.
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