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

Author/creator Ramirez, Loretta Victoria author.
Format Book
PublicationUniversity Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2024]
Descriptionxix, 235 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
Subjects

Portion of title Genealogy of the female body from medieval Iberia to SoCal Chicanx art
SeriesThe RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric
RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric. ^A1368648
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.
Abstract "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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 195-223) and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Ramirez, Loretta Victoria. Wound and the stitch. University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2024] 9780271098548
LCCN 2023055332
ISBN9780271097275 (hardback)
ISBN0271097272 (hardback)
ISBN9780271097282 (paperback)
ISBN0271097280 (paperback)
ISBN(electronic book)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner New Books NX512.3 .M4 R36 2024 ✔ Available Want This?