Resistant Bodies in the Cultural Productions of Transnational Hispanic Caribbean Women: Latin American Gender and Sexualities

Resistant Bodies in the Cultural Productions of Transnational Hispanic Caribbean Women: Reimagining Queer Identity examines the art created by several Caribbean women who use literature, film, graphic novels, music, testimonios, photographs, etc. to convey social justice, democracy and new ways of re/imaging marginal identities. In using Chela Sandoval s theories on methodologies of the oppressed, Irune del Rio Gabiola argues how the tactics Sandoval offers can be productively applied to the cultural productions analyzed. This book explores how the protagonists of all the cultural productions it focus on develop tactics to create new possibilities and alternatives for self-fashioning. Particularly, Gabiola reconsiders concepts such as shame, failure, unbecoming, hermeneutics of love or flexible bodies as methodologies of the oppressed that propose decolonizing emancipatory techniques in a transnational arena."