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Gendered Geographies in Puerto Rican Culture
Radost Rangelova
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Description for Gendered Geographies in Puerto Rican Culture
Paperback. Series: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJP; 2ADS; APFA; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 151 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 396.
This is a critical study of the construction of gendered spaces through feminine labor and capital in Puerto Rican literature and film (1950-2010). It analyzes gendered geographies and forms of emotional labor, and the possibility that they generate within the material and the symbolic spaces of the family house, the factory, the beauty salon and the brothel. It argues that by challenging traditional images of femininity texts by authors and film directors like Rosario Ferre, Carmen Lugo Filippi, Magali Garcia Ramis, Mayra Santos-Febres, Sonia Fritz and Ana Maria Garcia, among others, contest the official Puerto Rican cultural nationalist discourse on ... Read more
This is a critical study of the construction of gendered spaces through feminine labor and capital in Puerto Rican literature and film (1950-2010). It analyzes gendered geographies and forms of emotional labor, and the possibility that they generate within the material and the symbolic spaces of the family house, the factory, the beauty salon and the brothel. It argues that by challenging traditional images of femininity texts by authors and film directors like Rosario Ferre, Carmen Lugo Filippi, Magali Garcia Ramis, Mayra Santos-Febres, Sonia Fritz and Ana Maria Garcia, among others, contest the official Puerto Rican cultural nationalist discourse on ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9781469626161
SKU
V9781469626161
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About Radost Rangelova
Radost Rangelova is associate professor of Spanish at Gettysburg College, USA.
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