Gender and Allegory in Transamerican Fiction and Performance

Sugg, K.

By rethinking contemporary debates regarding the politics of aesthetic forms, Gender and Allegory in Transamerican Fiction and Performance explores how allegory can be used to resolve the "problem" of identity in both political theory and literary studies. Examining fiction and performance from Zoé Valdés and Cherríe Moraga to Def Poetry Jam and Carmelita Tropicana, Sugg suggests that the representational oscillations of allegory can reflect and illuminate the fraught dynamics of identity discourses and categories in the Americas. Using a wide array of theoretical and aesthetic sources from the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean, this book argues for the crucial and potentially transformative role of feminist cultural production in transamerican public cultures.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2008-09-15

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230604766

DOI: 10.1057/9780230616219

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 241