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1 online resource (1 volume). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Transformations : womanist, feminist, and indigenous studies
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Transformations (University of Illinois (System). Press)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : beyond the self -- Writing Latinx memoir : fragmented lives, precarious boundaries -- Community : John Rechy, depersonalization, and queer selves -- Webs : Aurora Levins Morales's animal, vegetable, and digital ecologies -- Life : the Gloria E. Anzaldúa papers and other-than-humanist ontologies -- Conclusion: Selflessness? |
| Summary |
"Memoir typically places selfhood at the center. Interestingly, the genre's recent surge in popularity coincides with breakthroughs in scholarship focused on selfhood in a new way: as an always renewing, always emerging entity. Suzanne Bost draws on feminist and posthumanist ideas to explore how three contemporary memoirists decenter the self. Latinx writers John Rechy, Aurora Levins Morales, and Gloria E. Anzaldúa work in places where personal history intertwines with communities, environments, animals, plants, and spirits. This dedication to interconnectedness resonates with ideas in posthumanist theory while calling on indigenous worldviews. As Bost argues, our view of life itself expands if we look at how such frameworks interact with queer theory, disability studies, ecological thinking, and other fields. These webs of relation in turn mediate experience, agency, and life itself"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hispanic American authors -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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Hispanic American authors. |
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Biography. |
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Hispanic Americans -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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Hispanic Americans -- Biography. |
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Autobiography -- Hispanic American authors -- History and criticism.
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Autobiography -- Hispanic American authors. |
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Biography as a literary form.
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Biography as a literary form. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bost, Suzanne. Shared selves. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2019] 9780252042799 (DLC) 2019025036 |
| ISBN |
9780252051654 electronic book |
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0252051653 electronic book |
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9780252042799 hardcover |
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9780252084621 paperback |
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0252042794 |
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0252084624 |
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