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This edited collection analyzes the concept of economic justice for those deemed non-normative due to their gender or sexuality in Latin American and Latinx literature of the 20th and 21st centuries.
List of contents
Introduction, Kathryn Quinn-Sánchez
Chapter 1: The Haunting of Queer Latinidad in the Memoirs of Myriam Gurba and Carmen Maria Machado, Alexander Lalama
Chapter 2: Interrogating the Heteronormative Landscapes of Judith Ortiz Cofer's The Line of the Sun and The Meaning of Consuelo, Marci Carrasquillo
Chapter 3: Economic Trans/actions and Space in Camila Sosa Villada's Las malas y Fernanda Melchor's Tiempo de huracanes, J. Agustín Pastén B.
Chapter 4: The Contested Travesti Bodies of Las malas and Tesis sobre una domesticación, John Kenneth Gibson
Chapter 5: The House of Forgetting: Control, Confinement and the Desire for Liberation, Michele Shaul
Chapter 6: Capitalism, Heteropatriarchy, and the Birth of the US -Mexico Border: Contesting the Imperial Script in Texas: La gran ladronería en el lejano norte (2012) by Carmen Boullosa, Joshua D. Martin
Chapter 7: Heteropatriarchal Capitalism and Southern Cone Oppression in Carolina De Robertis' Cantoras and The Gods of Tango, Kathryn Quinn-Sánchez
Chapter 8: Success and Failure of 'la Loca': Neoliberalism, Terrorist Drag, and Representational Strategies in Pedro Lemebel's Loco Afán, Crónicas de Sidario, and Angel Lozada's No quiero quedarme sola y vacía, Héctor Iglesias Pascual
Conclusions, Kathryn Quinn-Sánchez
About the Contributors
About the author
Kathryn Quinn-Sánchez is professor of world languages and cultures at Georgian Court University in Lakewood, New Jersey.Michele Shaul is director of the Center for Latino Studies, professor of Spanish at Queens University of Charlotte, and chair of the World Languages Department.Kathryn Quinn-Sánchez is professor of world languages and cultures at Georgian Court University in Lakewood, New Jersey.Michele Shaul is director of the Center for Latino Studies, professor of Spanish at Queens University of Charlotte, and chair of the World Languages Department.
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This edited collection analyzes the concept of economic justice for those deemed non-normative due to their gender or sexuality in Latin American and Latinx literature of the 20th and 21st centuries.
