{"product_id":"intersections-of-harm-narratives-of-latina-deviance-and-defiance-hardback-9780813570372","title":"Intersections of Harm; Narratives of Latina Deviance and Defiance (Hardback) 9780813570372","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eIntersections of Harm\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNarratives of Latina Deviance and Defiance\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLaura Halperin (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813570372\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 July 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e254 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.513 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Though several of the texts Halperin discusses have heretofore received extensive attention, Halperin places all the texts in conversation with each other and with other works, revealing a landscape of women seen as deviant, often mentally ill, for their resistance to oppression.  Halperin argues for deviance itself as a form of hope, and maintains that pain, though disempowering, can be transformative ... Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (CHOICE) \u003cdiv\u003e\"With scholarship that is broad and deep, \u003ci\u003eIntersections of Harm\u003c\/i\u003e offers excellent, original, and nuanced readings of Latina\/o literature that add to ongoing conversations in Latina literary studies and beyond.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Suzanne Bost (author of Encarnación: Illness and Body Politics in Chicana Feminist Literature) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIntersections of Harm \u003c\/i\u003emakes a distinctive contribution through its careful analysis of how individual physical and psychological damage interacts with larger, geopolitical forms of harm, making for rich, nuanced reading.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Marta Caminero-Santangelo (author of On Latinidad: U.S. Latino Literature and the Construction of Ethnicity) \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ca href='\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1K5Phrs\"'\u003eFeatured on the weekly book list\u003c\/a\u003e (http:\/\/bit.ly\/1K5Phrs)\u003c\/div\u003e (Chronicle of Higher Education) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Intersections of Harm is not only an outstanding and innovative contribution to Latina\/o literature but also to contemporary women’s literature and theorizations about madness and institutional structures of oppression. The book must be praised for its solid construction.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Intersections of Harm is at its best when it homes in on historically specific moments in the Americas to provide contextual information for its texts...In this way, Halperin makes an excellent case for the impossibility of extricating collective and geopolitical violence from the individual experience.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Latino Studies)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIn this innovative new study, Laura Halperin examines literary representations of harm inflicted on Latinas’ minds and bodies, and on the places Latinas inhabit, but she also explores how hope can be found amid so much harm. Analyzing contemporary memoirs and novels by Irene Vilar, Loida Maritza PÉrez, Ana Castillo, Cristina GarcÍa, and Julia Alvarez, she argues that the individual harm experienced by Latinas needs to be understood in relation to the collective histories of aggression against their communities. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eIntersections of Harm \u003c\/i\u003eis more than just a nuanced examination of the intersections among race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality. It also explores the intersections of deviance and defiance, individual and collective, and mind, body, and place. Halperin proposes that, ironically, the harmful ascriptions of Latina deviance are tied to the hopeful expressions of Latina defiance. While the Latina protagonists’ defiance feeds into the labels of deviance imposed on them, it also fuels the protagonists’ ability to resist such harmful treatment.  In this analysis, Halperin broadens the parameters of literary studies of female madness, as she compels us to shift our understanding of where madness lies. She insists that the madness readily attributed to individual Latinas is entwined with the madness of institutional structures of oppression, and she maintains that psychological harm is bound together with physical and geopolitical harm.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIn her pan-Latina study, Halperin shows how each writer’s work emerges from a unique set of locales and histories, but she also traces a network of connections among them. Bringing together concepts from feminism, postcolonialism, illness studies, and ecocriticism, \u003ci\u003eIntersections of Harm\u003c\/i\u003e opens up exciting new avenues for Latina\/o studies. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eContents\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIntroduction: Heridas, Hendiduras, y Rajaduras: Contextualizing Harm\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e1   Rape’\u003cbr\u003es Shadow: Seized Freedoms in Irene Vilar’\u003cbr\u003es The Ladies’\u003cbr\u003e Gallery and Impossible Motherhood\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2   Violated Bodies and Assaulting Landscapes in Loida Maritza PÉ\u003cbr\u003erez’\u003cbr\u003es Geographies of Home\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e3   Madness’\u003cbr\u003es Material Consequences in Ana Castillo’\u003cbr\u003es So Far From God\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e4   Artistic Aberrance and Liminal Geographies in Cristina GarcÍ\u003cbr\u003ea’\u003cbr\u003es Dreaming in Cuban\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e5   Clamped Mouths and Muted Cries: Stifled Expression in Julia Alvarez’\u003cbr\u003es How the GarcÍ\u003cbr\u003ea Girls Lost Their Accents\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eConclusion: Hope in the Interstices\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eNotes\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eBibliography\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIndex\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559350366488,"sku":"9780813570372","price":85.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/intersections-of-harm-narratives-of-latina-deviance-and-defiance-hardback-9780813570372","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}