| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) |
| Series |
Transformations : womanist, feminist, and Indigenous studies |
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Transformations (University of Illinois (System). Press)
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| Contents |
Introduction : beyond the self -- Writing Latinx memoir : fragmented lives, precarious boundaries -- Community : John Rechy, depersonalization, and queer selves -- Webs : Aurora Levins Morales's animal, vegetable, and digital ecologies -- Life : the Gloria E. Anzaldúa papers and other-than-humanist ontologies -- Conclusion: Selflessness? |
| Summary |
"Memoir typically places selfhood at the center. Interestingly, the genre's recent surge in popularity coincides with breakthroughs in scholarship focused on selfhood in a new way: as an always renewing, always emerging entity. Suzanne Bost draws on feminist and posthumanist ideas to explore how three contemporary memoirists decenter the self. Latinx writers John Rechy, Aurora Levins Morales, and Gloria E. Anzaldúa work in places where personal history intertwines with communities, environments, animals, plants, and spirits. This dedication to interconnectedness resonates with ideas in posthumanist theory while calling on Indigenous worldviews. As Bost argues, our view of life itself expands if we look at how such frameworks interact with queer theory, disability studies, ecological thinking, and other fields. These webs of relation in turn mediate experience, agency, and life itself"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 09, 2020) |
| Subject |
Hispanic American authors -- Biography -- History and criticism
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Hispanic Americans -- Biography -- History and criticism
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Autobiography -- Hispanic American authors -- History and criticism
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Biography as a literary form.
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Biography.
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biographies (literary works)
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biography (general genre)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Autobiography -- Hispanic American authors
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Hispanic Americans -- Biography
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Biography as a literary form
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Humanism in literature
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Womanism in literature
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Women's studies
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019025037 |
| ISBN |
9780252051654 |
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0252051653 |
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