Gender and Allegory in Transamerican Fiction and Performance
Katherine Sugg
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Paperback. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AS; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 335.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
241
Condition
New
Number of Pages
241
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349372652
SKU
V9781349372652
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About Katherine Sugg
Katherine Sugg is Assistant Professor of English, Central Connecticut State University.
Reviews for Gender and Allegory in Transamerican Fiction and Performance
"In Meditations on Quixote, Ortega y Gasset notes that the writer's choice of literary genre reflects 'at one and the same time a certain thing to be said and the only way to say it fully.' Sugg brilliantly affirms this insight by showing how writers such as Leslie Marmon Silko, Rosario Castellanos, Zoé Valdés, Cherrie Moraga, and Julia Álvarez, engage ... Read more