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Somatic Transactions Of Race In Latina/O Literature

by Fetta Stephanie Fetta
language: english
Publisher: OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS, October of 2018 ‧
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In Shaming into Brown: Somatic Transactions of Race in Latina/o Literature, Stephanie Fetta asserts that our bodies are fundamental to how we live and how we make meaning. Anchored by two psychoanalytic theories, bioenergetic analysis developed by Alexander Lowen and affect theory put forth by Silvan Tomkins, Fetta examines Latinx fiction to draw attention to the cultural role of the intelligent, emotional, and communicative body—the soma—in relation to shame. She argues that we bring the soma—the physical, emotive, and social register of our subjectivity—to the text as we do to our lives,proposing that the power of racialization operates at the level of somatic expression and reception through habituated, socially cued behaviors that are not readily subject to intentional control.
Fetta examines shame beyond individual experiences, looking at literary renderings of the cultural practice of racial shaming that are deeply embedded into our laws, hiring practices, marketing strategies, and more. Grounding her analysis in the works of Gloria Anzaldúa and Cherríe Moraga, Shaming into Brown focuses on exposing the underpinnings of racialized shame and does so through analyzing "scenes of racialization" in prominent works by authors such as Junot Díaz, Sandra Cisneros, and Oscar Zeta Acosta.
 

Shaming Into Brown

Somatic Transactions Of Race In Latina/O Literature

by Fetta Stephanie Fetta

Property Description
ISBN: 9780814276648
Publisher: OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: October of 2018
Language: English
Pages: 232
Format: eBook
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Collection: Cognitive Approaches To Culture
Categories: eBooks in English > Tourist Guides and Maps > North America
EAN: 9780814276648
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