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Tortilleras
Lourdes Torres
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Description for Tortilleras
Paperback. Interrogates issues of gender, national identity, race, ethnicity, and class to show the impossibility of projecting a singular Hispanic or Latina Lesbian. Examining the works of a range of lesbian writers and performance artists, this title creates a picture of the contributions of Latina and Hispanic lesbians to literature and culture. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFC; JFSK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 19. Weight in Grams: 599.
The first anthology to focus exclusively on queer readings of Spanish, Latin American, and US Latina lesbian literature and culture, Tortilleras interrogates issues of gender, national identity, race, ethnicity, and class to show the impossibility of projecting a singular Hispanic or Latina Lesbian. Examining carefully the works of a range of lesbian writers and performance artists, including Carmelita Tropicana and Christina Peri Rossi, among others, the contributors create a picture of the complicated and multi-textured contributions of Latina and Hispanic lesbians to literature and culture. More than simply describing this sphere of creativity, the contributors also recover from history the ... Read more
The first anthology to focus exclusively on queer readings of Spanish, Latin American, and US Latina lesbian literature and culture, Tortilleras interrogates issues of gender, national identity, race, ethnicity, and class to show the impossibility of projecting a singular Hispanic or Latina Lesbian. Examining carefully the works of a range of lesbian writers and performance artists, including Carmelita Tropicana and Christina Peri Rossi, among others, the contributors create a picture of the complicated and multi-textured contributions of Latina and Hispanic lesbians to literature and culture. More than simply describing this sphere of creativity, the contributors also recover from history the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781592130078
SKU
V9781592130078
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About Lourdes Torres
Lourdes Torres is Associate Professor of Latin American/Latino studies at De Paul University.Inmaculada Perpetusa-Seva is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Kentucky.Contributors: Maria Claudia Andre, Janis Breckenridge, Regina M. Buccola, Karina Lisette Cespedes, Sara E. Cooper, Catriona Rueda Esquibel, Salvador C. Fernandez, Elisa A. Garza; Wilfredo Hernandez, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Gema Perez-Sanchez, Christina Sharpe, Sherry Velasco, Nancy Vosburg, ... Read more
Reviews for Tortilleras
"Finalmente, the hole in the canon has been filled by Tortilleras, a book as fierce as the women it chronicles from the 17th century Catalina Erauso who passes as a man in Peru to the 21st century writer extraordinaire and political activist in the U.S. Cherrie Moraga. Exelente!"-Carmelita Tropicana is an Obie award winning Performance Artist and writer of I, ... Read more