Colombian Diasporic Identities - Representations in Literature, Film, Theater and Art

Sommario

Introduction
1: Visualizing the invisible: the novels of Patricia Engel
2: Queering Caribbean identity and language: LGBTQ+ novels and memoirs from the Colombian diaspora; Jaime Manrique, Julián Delgado Lopera and Daisy Hernández
3: Diasporic hair: mapping out Afro-Colombian identity in the film La Playa D.C. (2012)
4: Remixing, repeating and reinterpreting: John Leguizamo on being a Ghetto Klown
5: Reappropriating impositions: a conversation with Gonzalo Fuenmayor

Info autore

Annie Mendoza is Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages, Philosophy and Religion at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania where she teaches courses on Latin American and US Latinx literature, film, culture as well as language. She received her PhD at the University of California, San Diego in 2010. She is the author of Rewriting the Nation: Novels by Women on Violence in Colombia (2015) and has published essays in peer- reviewed journals such as Revista de Estudios Colombianos, Zapruder World: An International Journal for the History of Social Conflict, Voces del Caribe: Revista de Estudios Caribeños, Intervenxions (by the Latinx Project at New York University) and the anthology Poemas y cantos: antología crítica de autoras afrodescendientes de América Latina.

Riassunto

This book interrogates the identity politics involved in framing Colombian diasporas, examining the ways that creative writers, directors, performers and artists negotiate with diasporic experiences and how they represent this identity through their art and cultural productions.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Annie Mendoza, Annie (East Stroudsburg University of Pen Mendoza
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.05.2023
• EAN: 9781138346390
• ISBN: 978-1-138-34639-0
• Pagine: 180
• Serie: Global Gender
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Ethnic Studies, History, Media Studies, Latin America, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Films, cinema, Humanities, Regional Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Regional / International studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Literature: history and criticism, Hispanic & Latino Studies