The wound and the stitch : a genealogy of the female body from medieval Iberia to SoCal Chicanx art / Loretta Victoria Ramirez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ramirez, Loretta Victoria, author.

Series:

RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric

The RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican American arts.

Wounds and injuries in art.

Wounds and injuries in literature.

Women in art.

Women in literature.

Rhetoric.

rhetoric (discipline).

Physical Description:

xix, 235 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Genealogy of the female body from medieval Iberia to SoCal Chicanx art

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Traces a historical genealogy of imagery and language centered on the concept of woundedness and the stitching together of fragmented selves in Chicanx self-representation"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : the wound and the stitch

The rhetorical wound. Cherríe Moraga's rhetoric of fragmentation and semi-ness ; Woundedness as decolonial rhetoric

The inflicted wound. Biopolitics and "crying wounds" in No más bebés ; Border-patrolling Chicana bodies and wound theory as resistance

The generative wound. Reading wounds (from right to left) to reclaim Mexica cosmologies ; The art of the generative wound (from container to co-redemptrix)

Conclusion : the linguistic wound and stitch pedagogy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-223) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Ramirez, Loretta Victoria. Wound and the stitch.

ISBN:

9780271097275

0271097272

9780271097282

0271097280

OCLC:

1401051797