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Latina Lesbian Writers and Artists

Maria Dolores Costa

2003,2012

Overview

Explore a little-known side of the lesbian artistic world! With this book, you'll explore the work of the most significant contemporary Latina lesbian writers, artists, and performers in the United States, Latin America, and Spain. This book presents and analyzes literature, art, and poetry by women who, despite markedly different backgrounds and experiences, are all strongly influenced by the concept of lesbian identity. Latina Lesbian Writers and Artists begins with an essential A-to-Z overview of modern Latina lesbian authors and performers. From Cuban writer Magaly Alabau to literary critic Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, you'll learn who these women are, where they're from, and what they've chosen as the focus of their work. The rest of the book is structured to give you a look at the work Latina lesbians in the United States and then moves geographically outward, first to Latin America, then to Spain. 'Tortilleras on the Prairie: Latina Lesbians Writing the Midwest' provides a unique look at a much-neglected component of Latina lesbian writing-that of the Latinas living far from the East and West Coast hubs of both Latino and queer cultures, exploring Latina lesbian literary production in places like Kansas and Nebraska. 'The Role of Carmelita Tropicana in the Performance Art of Alina Troyano,' appraises the imaginative, hilarious, and insightful work of Cuban-American performance artist Alina Troyano (better known by her stage name, Carmelita Tropicana), examining the strategies she used (code switching, the breaking of heterosexist norms, the development of alter-egos, and more) to create a hybrid identity as an artist and performer. 'Moving La Frontera Toward a Genuine Radical Democracy in Gloria Anzaldúa's Work' shows us how Anzaldúa's pivotal work Borderlands has revolutionized academic perceptions

• Publisher: Routledge,Taylor and Francis,Taylor & Francis Group
• Subject: American literature / American literature - Hispanic American authors - History and criticism / Area Studies / Gay & Lesbian Literature / Hispanic American lesbians / Homosexuality and literature / Lesbian artists / Lesbians / Lesbians' writings, American / Lesbians' writings, Spanish / Lesbians' writings, Spanish American / Race & Ethnic Studies / Spanish American literature / Spanish literature / Women and literature
• ISBN: 1560232781, 9781560232780, 9781560232797, 156023279X