Infertilities: Exploring Fictions of Barren Bodies: 4 (Cultural Studies of the Americas) - Tapa blanda

Goodman, Robin Truth

 
9780816634880: Infertilities: Exploring Fictions of Barren Bodies: 4 (Cultural Studies of the Americas)
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ISBN 10: 0816634882 ISBN 13: 9780816634880
Editorial: University of Minnesota Press, 2000

Sinopsis

An original analysis of the role of female reproduction in the project of empire.

In today’s global market, ideas about family, femininity, and reproduction are traded on as actively as any currency or stock. The connection has a history, one rooted in a conception of feminine identities invented through a science interwoven with the pursuit of empire, the accumulation of goods, and the furtherance of power. It is this history that Robin Truth Goodman exposes in her provocative analysis of literary and political representations of female infertility from the mid-nineteenth century to our day.

Goodman takes Darwin’s studies on sterility between species as her starting point, exploring evolutionary science as the intersection of a colonial worldview based on class struggle and the pathologizing of female identities that fall outside reproductive normalcy. She then examines how Joseph Conrad constructs a vision of feminism as a product of miscegenation, how Alejo Carpentier and Mario Vargas Llosa deploy female figures of miscegenation to recast Latin American literature as "difference," and how ecological devastation in the Brazilian Amazon is envisioned through failures in Indian marriage. Locating points of conjunction between queer, feminist, and postcolonial theories, Infertilities points to the role of lesbian representation and reproductive politics in ongoing critiques of globalism.

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Acerca del autor

Robin Truth Goodman is an independent scholar who lives in New York City.

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Editorial
University of Minnesota Press
Año de publicación
2000
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0816634882
ISBN 13 
9780816634880
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Número de páginas
264
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