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Humoring Resistance : Laughter and the Excessive Body in Latin American Women's Fiction.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture SeriesPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2004Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (204 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780791484951
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Humoring ResistanceDDC classification:
  • 863.6099287098
LOC classification:
  • PQ7081.5 -- .N54 2004eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- HUMORING RESISTANCE -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Challenging Humor Theory with the "Humored" Body -- 2. Incontinent Bodies, Mixed Humor: Laura Esquivel -- 3. Provocative Bodies, Hard-Edged Humor: Ana Lydia Vega -- 4. Torpid Bodies, Skeptical Humor: Luisa Valenzuela -- 5. Sick Bodies, Corrosive Humor: Armonía Somers -- 6. Mutating Bodies, Entropic Humor: Alicia Borinsky -- Epilogue -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE -- CHAPTER TWO -- CHAPTER THREE -- CHAPTER FOUR -- CHAPTER FIVE -- CHAPTER SIX -- EPILOGUE -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Analyzes the explosive connections among strategic uses of humor, women's bodies, and resistance in fiction by Latin American women writers.
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Intro -- HUMORING RESISTANCE -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Challenging Humor Theory with the "Humored" Body -- 2. Incontinent Bodies, Mixed Humor: Laura Esquivel -- 3. Provocative Bodies, Hard-Edged Humor: Ana Lydia Vega -- 4. Torpid Bodies, Skeptical Humor: Luisa Valenzuela -- 5. Sick Bodies, Corrosive Humor: Armonía Somers -- 6. Mutating Bodies, Entropic Humor: Alicia Borinsky -- Epilogue -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE -- CHAPTER TWO -- CHAPTER THREE -- CHAPTER FOUR -- CHAPTER FIVE -- CHAPTER SIX -- EPILOGUE -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Analyzes the explosive connections among strategic uses of humor, women's bodies, and resistance in fiction by Latin American women writers.

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