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Political Bodies
Alice A. Nelson
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Hardback. Series: Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature & Theory. Num Pages: 307 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 167 x 22. Weight in Grams: 635.
Political Bodies is one of the first studies to link recent developments in Latin American literature to the rise of new social movements in the late 1970s and 1980s. Focusing on literary works in the context of the Chilean women's movement and resistance to the Pinochet dictatorship, Alice Nelson contends that the recent struggle for narrative power in Chile has been a contest about gender ideologies. Furthermore, she argues that this contest has been enacted literally and figuratively on the stage of human bodies as sites of domination and resistance. Examining works by Pía Barros, Davide Benavente and the Taller ... Read more
Political Bodies is one of the first studies to link recent developments in Latin American literature to the rise of new social movements in the late 1970s and 1980s. Focusing on literary works in the context of the Chilean women's movement and resistance to the Pinochet dictatorship, Alice Nelson contends that the recent struggle for narrative power in Chile has been a contest about gender ideologies. Furthermore, she argues that this contest has been enacted literally and figuratively on the stage of human bodies as sites of domination and resistance. Examining works by Pía Barros, Davide Benavente and the Taller ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
307
Condition
New
Series
Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature & Theory
Number of Pages
307
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611481556
SKU
V9781611481556
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About Alice A. Nelson
Alice A. Nelson has written extensively on recent Chilean literature, and has published translations of short works by several Chilean authors, including Pía Barros, Soledad Bianchi, and Diamela Eltit. Since 1992, she has lived in Olympia, Washington, where she teaches Latin American cultural studies and Spanish language at The Evergreen State College.
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