Gender and allegory in transamerican fiction and performance

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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 Zoe Valdes and Cherrie 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--Résumé de l'éditeur. Read more... Abstract: Taking a comparative view of literary and cultural production in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the U.S., Sugg traces and analyzes modes of minority identity and its representation in various circuits across the Americas. Read more... Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii Cultural Politics in Transamerica: Identity, Narrativity, and Allegory (Katherine Sugg)....Pages 1-37 “The Ultimate Rebellion”: Political Fictions of Chicana Sexuality and Community (Katherine Sugg)....Pages 39-66 Apocalyptic Modernities: Transamerican Allegory, Revolution, and Indigeneity in Almanac of the Dead (Katherine Sugg)....Pages 67-99 Allegory and Transcultural Ethics: Narrating Difference in Rosario Castellanos’s Oficio de tinieblas (Katherine Sugg)....Pages 101-133 Encrypted Diasporas:Writing, Affect, and the Nation in Zoé Valdés’s Café Nostalgia (Katherine Sugg)....Pages 135-161 Performing Suspended Migrations: Novels and Solo Performance Art by U.S. Latinas (Katherine Sugg)....Pages 163-193 Back Matter ....Pages 195-241