Full Description
Intersectional Feminism in the Age of Transnationalism: Voices from the Margins explores the limitations of the transnationalist approach to feminism and questions the neoliberal emphasis on individual freedom and consumer choice as the central goals of feminist activism. The contributions to the volume discuss such varied topics as fiction by Edwidge Dandicat, Judith Ortiz-Cofer, and Diamela Eltit; visual art of Laura Aguilar and Maruja Mallo; films directed by Lucrecia Martel; a TV series based on a novel by María Dueñas; the art-activism of Ani Ganzala and Zinha Franco; and the philosophical thought of Gloria Anzaldúa. All chapters proceed from the belief in the continued usefulness of intersectionality as a valuable category of critical analysis that is particularly necessary at the time when the effects of neoliberal globalization are undermining many familiar categories of critical inquiry.
Contents
Part I: Essay, Novel, and Short Story
Chapter 1: Border Trouble: Anzaldúa's Margins
Leslie Bary
Chapter 2: Tuning In: Intimacy and Networks in Diamela Eltit's Fuerzas especiales
Sowmya Ramanathan
Chapter 3: Transculturation and the Body: Edwidge Dandicat and Judith Ortiz Cofer
Raysa Amador
Part II: TV and Film
Chapter 4. "Postfeminist Supergirl" Turned Superspy: Crossing Borders and New Identities in El tiempo entre costuras
Barbara Minter
Chapter 5: Lucrecia Martel's Salta Trilogy: A (Trans)National Bildungsroman of Female Sexuality
Java Singh, Doon University
Part III: Visual and Performing Arts
Chapter 6: Re-imagining the Borderlands: Intersectionality and Transnational Queering of Laura Aguilar's Self-Portrait Three Eagles Flying
Rosita Scerbo
Chapter 7: The Transformative Experience of the New Continent in Maruja Mallo's Art
María Alejandra Zanetta
Chapter 8: Technologies of Affective Solidarity: Salvador, Brazil's Ani Ganzala & Zinha Franco
Naomi Pueo Wood
