Title Humoring resistance : laughter and the excessive body in contemporary Latin American women's fiction / Dianna C. Niebylski

Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (x, 193 pages) Series SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture. Contents Challenging humor theory with the body's "humors" -- Incontinent bodies, mixed humor: Laura Esquivel -- Provocative bodies, hard-edged humor: Ana Lydia Vega -- Torpid bodies, skeptical humor: Luisa Valenzuela -- Sick bodies, corrosive humor: Armonia Somers -- Mutating bodies, entropic humor: Alicia Borinsky Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-187) and index Notes Print version record Subject Spanish American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism Spanish American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Women and literature -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century Comic, The, in literature. Laughter in literature. Women in literature. Dissenters in literature. Human body in literature. Comic, The, in literature Dissenters in literature Human body in literature Laughter in literature Spanish American literature Spanish American literature -- Women authors Women and literature Women in literature Latin America Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 1423739930 9781423739937 9780791461235 0791461238

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