Gender and Allegory in Transamerican Fiction and Performance

by Katherine Sugg

Book Overview

By rethinking contemporary debates regarding the politics of aesthetic forms, Gender and Allegory in Transamerican Fiction and Performance explores how allegory can be used to resolve the "problem" of identity in both political theory and literary studies. Examining fiction and performance from Zo? Vald?s and Cherr?e Moraga to Def Poetry Jam and Carmelita Tropicana, Sugg suggests that the representational oscillations of allegory can reflect and illuminate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 134937265X
• ISBN13: 9781349372652
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"