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The Female Body Perspectives of Latin American Artists
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Raysa E. Amador Gómez-Quintero, Mireya Pérez Bustillo
Foreword by Elena Poniatowska
Book Code: GM1120
ISBN: 0-313-31120-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31120-8
160 pages, photographs
Greenwood Press
Publication: 11/30/2001
List Price: $110.95 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Series Title: Contributions in Women's Studies
Series Number: 190
  • Endorsement From Dr. Antonio Sobejano-Mord'an
    Binghamton University:     The Female Body: Perspectives of Latin American Artists opens new boundaries in the exploration and construction of the Latina self. This book provides a deep analysis of the construction of the female body and female identity from a variety of perspectives and contexts. The book focuses on the different techniques of self-figuration or self-representation used by female discourses.
  • Endorsement From Barbara Mujica
    Professor of Spanish
    Georgetown University
    author of Frida: A Novel:     Raysa Amador Gómez-Quintero and Mireya Pérez Bustillo draw on an impressive body of critical theory to elucidate issues involving the female body. By exploring both visual and narrative sources, they construct a coherent notion of female self-figuration. Amador and Perez show how female artists, by delving into women's inner and physical worlds, move women from the margins to the center of both creative and historical space and, in the process, generate artistic innovation. The inclusion     of illustrations greatly enriches the text. The Female Body is a well composed and well researched study; it is a welcome addition to the growing corpus of critical material on creative works by Latin American women.
Description: Including both narratives and visual texts by and about Latina women, Amador Gómez-Quintero and Pérez Bustillo address the question of how women represent themselves. Utilizing paintings, novels, photographs, memoirs, and diaries this work examines the depiction of the female body in 20th-century creative expression. From writers such as Julia Alvarez and Christina Garcia to artists including Frida Kahlo and Ana Mendieta, it provides both a broad outline and a finely detailed exploration of how a largely overlooked community of creative women have seen, drawn, photographed, and written about their own experience. The authors discuss women as both agent and subject of artistic representation often comparing both fictional and nonfictional versions of the same woman. Not only do they analyze Elena Poniatowska's Dear Diego, which centers on artist Angelina Beloff, but they also analyze Beloff's own memoirs. Continuing in this style, they make further comparisons between Frida Kahlo's Diary and visual images of her body. Connections such as these are what make their work not merely an articulation of imagery but an explanation of ideas.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Constructing the Self: The "I" of the Novel: Elena Poniatowska's Quiela (Dear Diego), and Tina (Tinísima)
  • Contrasting Selves: The Novel and the Memoir: Poniatowska's Dear Diego and Angelina Beloff's Memorias
  • Transforming the Gaze: The "I" of the Camera: Tina Modotti's Photographs
  • Dissecting the Self: Visual and Written Subjectivity: Frida Kahlo's Diary
  • Inscribing the Body: Latina's Narrative and Visual Representation
  • Works Cited
  • Index
LC Card Number: 00-052433
LCC Class: PQ7081
Dewey Class: 860
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