Beschreibung
offers a hyper-contemporary and wide-ranging analysis of questions of identity based on nation and region, language, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion or even ‘the human’. This volume presents a fresh perspective on identity studies in the twenty-first century and in the age of globalization.
Autorenportrait
Lucille Cairns is Professor of French at Durham University. She is the author of numerous articles both on French women’s writing and on male and female homosexuality in French literature and film, and of five monographs, most recently
(2011). She was also editor of
(2002). In 2009, she was made a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French government.
Santiago Fouz-Hernández is Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Durham University. He is the author of the monograph
(2013), co-author of
(2007) and editor of
(2009). He is also the reviews editor of the journal
. His current research focuses on Spanish erotic cinema.
Inhalt
Contents: Lucille Cairns: Post-Feminist Pornographication or Pro-Sex Feminism? Queer Performativity in the Work of Two French Female Artists – Doris Leibetseder: Fem(me) Tracks: Queer Fem(me)inist Strategies of Resistance in Rock and Pop Music, from Angie Reed to Denice Fredriksson – Santiago Fouz-Hernández/Adrián Gras-Velázquez: Screening Chueca: Marking the Queer Territory in Spanish Cinema of the 2000s – Florian Grandena: From the Sublimated Anus to the Desublimating Hand: An Intersectional Discussion of Work and Homosexuality in French Gay Cinema – Andy Byford: Performing ‘Community’: Russian Speakers in Contemporary Britain – Alfredo Martínez-Expósito: Branding the Nation: Resistance and Authenticity in García Berlanga’s
– Diego Santos Sánchez: Performing Nationhood: Theatre and Heterodox Identities in (Multi)National Spain – Kerstin Oloff: Towards the World-Zombie: The Monstrous, the ‘Human’ and the Dominican-Haitian Frontier in Pedro Cabiya’s
(2010) and Junot Díaz’s ‘Monstro’ (2012) – Christopher Lloyd: Redrawing the Boundaries of the Human: Automata, Androids and Clones from Hoffmann to Houellebecq.
