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Trade Review"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." * CHOICE *
"With scholarship that is broad and deep,
Intersections of Harm offers excellent, original, and nuanced readings of Latina/o literature that add to ongoing conversations in Latina literary studies and beyond." -- Suzanne Bost * author of Encarnación: Illness and Body Politics in Chicana Feminist Literature *
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Intersections of Harm makes 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." -- Marta Caminero-Santangelo * author of On Latinidad: U.S. Latino Literature and the Construction of Ethnicity *
Featured on the weekly book list (http://bit.ly/1K5Phrs) * Chronicle of Higher Education *
"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." * Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature *
"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." * Latino Studies *
Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Heridas, Hendiduras, y Rajaduras: Contextualizing Harm1 Rape’s Shadow: Seized Freedoms in Irene Vilar’s The Ladies’ Gallery and Impossible Motherhood2 Violated Bodies and Assaulting Landscapes in Loida Maritza Pérez’s Geographies of Home3 Madness’s Material Consequences in Ana Castillo’s So Far From God4 Artistic Aberrance and Liminal Geographies in Cristina García’s Dreaming in Cuban5 Clamped Mouths and Muted Cries: Stifled Expression in Julia Alvarez’s How the García Girls Lost Their AccentsConclusion: Hope in the IntersticesNotesBibliographyIndex
