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By Linda Saborío

Embodying distinction: Scripting Social pictures of the feminine physique in Latina Theatre explores modern theatrical productions via Latina dramatists within the usa and specializes in the results that neoliberal politics, worldwide industry recommendations, gender formation, and racial and ethnic marginalization have had on Latinas. in the course of the research of opt for performs by way of dramatists Nao Bustamante, Coco Fusco, Anne García-Romero, Josefina López, Cherríe Moraga, Linda Nieves-Powell, Dolores Prida, and Milcha Sánchez-Scott, Embodying Difference indicates how the our bodies of Latinas are represented on degree which will create a picture of Latina consolidation. The performances of a dynamic lady physique problem assumptions approximately ethno-racial expressions, exoticized “otherness,” and political correctness as this booklet explores frequently uneasy websites of representations of the physique together with phenotype, sexuality, weight problems, and the physique as a political marker. Drawing at the theoretical framework of distinction, together with differing gender voices, performances, and performative acts, Embodying Difference examines social photos of the Latina physique as a method of realizing and rearticulating Latina subjectivity via an expression of distinction. via a gentle attention and self-acclamation in their personal photographs, Latinas can discover ways to embrace notions of self that suggest their curvaceous, sexualized, and outsized our bodies that experience traditionally been marked and advertised by way of their “brownness.”

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