Gender and Allegory in Transamerican Fiction and Performance
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Gender and Allegory in Transamerican Fiction and Performance

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Gender and Allegory in Transamerican Fiction and Performance

About this book

By rethinking contemporary debates regarding the politics of aesthetic forms, Gender and Allegory in Transamerican Fiction and Performance explores how allegory can be used to resolve the "problem" of identity in both political theory and literary studies. Examining fiction and performance from Zoé Valdés and Cherríe Moraga to Def Poetry Jam and Carmelita Tropicana, Sugg suggests that the representational oscillations of allegory can reflect and illuminate the fraught dynamics of identity discourses and categories in the Americas. Using a wide array of theoretical and aesthetic sources from the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean, this book argues for the crucial and potentially transformative role of feminist cultural production in transamerican public cultures.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface: Gender and Allegorical Pedagogies in the Americas
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. 1 Cultural Politics in Transamerica: Identity, Narrativity, and Allegory
  6. 2 "The Ultimate Rebellion": Political Fictions of Chicana Sexuality and Community
  7. 3 Apocalyptic Modernities: Transamerican Allegory, Revolution, and Indigeneity in Almanac of the Dead
  8. 4 Allegory and Transcultural Ethics: Narrating Difference in Rosario Castellanos's Oficio de tinieblas
  9. 5 Encrypted Diasporas: Writing, Affect, and the Nation in Zoé Valdés's Café Nostalgia
  10. 6 Performing Suspended Migrations: Novels and Solo Performance Art by U.S. Latinas
  11. Notes
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index