Embodying Difference: Scripting Social Images of the Female by Linda Saborío

By Linda Saborío

Embodying distinction: Scripting Social photographs of the feminine physique in Latina Theatre explores modern theatrical productions via Latina dramatists within the usa and makes a speciality of the results that neoliberal politics, worldwide marketplace options, gender formation, and racial and ethnic marginalization have had on Latinas. throughout the research of decide on performs via dramatists Nao Bustamante, Coco Fusco, Anne García-Romero, Josefina López, Cherríe Moraga, Linda Nieves-Powell, Dolores Prida, and Milcha Sánchez-Scott, Embodying Difference indicates how the our bodies of Latinas are represented on degree with a view to create a picture of Latina consolidation. The performances of a dynamic girl physique problem assumptions approximately ethno-racial expressions, exoticized “otherness,” and political correctness as this publication explores frequently uneasy websites of representations of the physique together with phenotype, sexuality, weight problems, and the physique as a political marker. Drawing at the theoretical framework of distinction, together with differing gender voices, performances, and performative acts, Embodying Difference examines social photographs of the Latina physique as a way of figuring out and rearticulating Latina subjectivity via an expression of distinction. by way of a gentle consciousness and self-acclamation in their personal pictures, Latinas can discover ways to include notions of self that advocate their curvaceous, sexualized, and outsized our bodies that experience traditionally been marked and advertised by means of their “brownness.”

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