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La ontología mutante, siendo concebida fantásticamente, es aquella donde mi mente desconstruye mi espacio social que encierra deseos, signos, memoria, intercambios, frustraciones y sueños, para llevarme a una preocupación de mi quehacer como ser humano más allá de mis relaciones sociales cotidianas. Tomo la metáfora de ciudades fantásticas como mecanismo de escape de una realidad insatisfactoria. Propongo la conquista de una nueva percepción de "sí mismo" por el individuo quien, como yo, busca ese cambio a partir de su propio desencanto. La percepción a conquistar que yo propongo es una categoría que he llamado ontología mutante, la cual consiste en la transgresión de la concepción que tiene el "yo" de "sí mismo" a través de los deseos ocultos que éste habrá de sacar a la luz a pesar de los obstáculos impuestos por la moralidad.
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Evelyn Elenes es Doctora en Estudios Latinoamericanos por la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la UNAM, en México. Maestra en Artes Visuales y Licenciada en Ciencias de la Comunicación por la misma universidad. En los tres casos obtuvo Mención Honorífica. Realizó estudios de maestría en Historia del Arte Latinoamericano en la UNSAM, en Argentina.
Zusammenfassung
In the tradition of towering biographies that tell us as much about America as they do about their subject, Ida: A Sword Among Lions is a sweepingnarrative about a country and a crusader embroiled in the struggle against lynching: a practice that imperiled not only the lives of blackmen and women, but also a nation based on law and riven by race.
At the center of the national drama is Ida B. Wells (1862-1931), born to slaves in Mississippi, who began her activist career by refusing to leave a first-class ladies' car on a Memphis railway and rose to lead the nation's firstcampaign against lynching. For Wells the key to the rise in violence was embedded in attitudes not only about black men but about women and sexuality as well. Her independent perspective and percussive personality gained her encomiums as a hero -- as well as aspersions on her character and threats of death. Exiled from the South by 1892, Wells subsequently took her campaign across the country and throughout the British Isles before she married and settled in Chicago, where she continued her activism as a journalist, suffragist, and independent candidate in the rough-and-tumble world of the Windy City's politics.
In this eagerly awaited biography by Paula J. Giddings, author of the groundbreaking book When and Where I Enter, which traced the activisthistory of black women in America, the irrepressible personality of Ida B. Wells surges out of the pages. With meticulous research and vivid rendering of her subject, Giddings also provides compelling portraits of twentieth-century progressive luminaries, black and white, with whom Wells worked during some of the most tumultuous periods in American history. Embattled all of her activist life, Wells found herself fighting not only conservative adversaries but icons of the civil rights and women's suffrage movements who sought to undermine her place in history.
In this definitive biography, which places Ida B. Wells firmly in the context of her times as well as ours, Giddings at long last gives this visionary reformer her due and, in the process, sheds light on an aspect of our history that isoften left in the shadows.
Zusatztext
"The best interpretation of black women and race and sex that we have."
