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Contextualizing theoretical debates about the political uses of gendered humor and female excess, this book explores bold new ways in which a number of contemporary Latin American women authors approach questions of identity and community. The author examines the connections among strategic uses of humor, women's bodies, and resistance in works of fiction by Laura Esquivel, Ana Lydia Vega, Luisa Valenzuela, Armonía Somers, and Alicia Borinsky. She shows how the interarticulation of the comic and comic-grotesque vision with different types of excessive female bodies can result in new configurations of female subjectivity.

Human body in literature --- Dissenters in literature. --- Women in literature. --- Laughter in literature. --- Comic, The, in literature. --- Women and literature --- Spanish American literature --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- History --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- Human body in literature.

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Poverty --- Economic history --- Social aspects. --- Littérature hispano-américaine. --- Conditions économiques. --- 2000-2099 --- Latin America --- Economic conditions --- Social aspects --- Latin America. --- Economic history. --- Latin American literature --- Latin American literature. --- Motion pictures --- Motion pictures. --- Poverty in literature. --- Poverty. --- Social conditions. --- History and criticism. --- History --- 2000-2099. --- Social conditions --- Littérature hispano-américaine. --- Conditions économiques.

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