The Language of the In-Between: Travestis, Post-Hegemony, and Writing in Contemporary Chile and Peru - Couverture rigide

Almenara, Erika

 
9780822947271: The Language of the In-Between: Travestis, Post-Hegemony, and Writing in Contemporary Chile and Peru
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ISBN 10 : 0822947277 ISBN 13 : 9780822947271
Editeur : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022

Synopsis

Often, the process of modern state formation is founded on the marginalization of certain groups, and Latin America is no exception. In The Language of the In-Between, Erika Almenara contends that literary production replicates this same process. Looking at marginalized communities in Chile and Peru, particularly writers who are travesti, trans, cuir/queer, and Indigenous, the author shows how these writers stake a claim for the liminal space that is neither one thing nor the other. This allows a freedom to expose oppression and to critique a national identity based on erasure. By employing a language of nonnormative gender and sexuality to dispute the state projects of modernity and modernization, the voice of the poor and racialized travesti evolves from powerlessness to become an agent of social transformation.

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À propos de l?auteur

Erika Almenara is assistant professor of Spanish in the Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Arkansas. Her research interests include twentieth- and twenty-first-century Latin American cultural production, especially in the cases of marginalized subjects and communities.

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Éditeur
University of Pittsburgh Press
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0822947277
ISBN 13 
9780822947271
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
258
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