{"product_id":"masculinefeminine-9780822333142","title":"MasculineFeminine","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eNelly Richard is one of the most prominent cultural theorists writing in Latin America today. As a participant in Chile’s neo-avantgarde, Richard worked to expand the possibilities for cultural debate within the constraints imposed by the Pinochet dictatorship (1973–1990), and she has continued to offer incisive commentary about the country’s transition to democracy. Well known as the founder and director of the influential Santiago-based journal \u003ci\u003eRevista de crítica cultural\u003c\/i\u003e, Richard has been central to the dissemination throughout Latin America of work by key contemporary thinkers, including Néstor García Canclini, Jacques Derrida, Fredric Jameson, and Diamela Eltit. Her own writing provides rigorous considerations of Latin American identity, postmodernism, gender, neoliberalism, and strategies of political and cultural resistance. \u003cp\u003eRichard helped to organize the 1987 International Conference on Latin American Women’s Literatur\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“At last, Nelly Richard’s work is available for English-language readers. A leading figure in the theater of Latin American critical debate, Nelly Richard has written with unorthodox brilliance about the Chilean transition to democracy, North-South cultural relations, and the value of aesthetic intervention to rethinking the politics of difference.”—Francine Masiello, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Transition: Latin American Culture and Neoliberal Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The Chilean publication of this book and of its companion volume (\u003ci\u003eThe Insubordination of Signs\u003c\/i\u003e) confirmed and advanced Nelly Richard’s reputation as one of the foremost critical voices of the age. Richard’s brand of cultural critique, informed by a thorough attention to contemporary forms of subjectivity, is unmatched in the force of its theoretical articulation, its aesthetic sensitivity, and its sharp deployment of political strategies. Nelly Richard is today an essential reference for intellectual work in Latin America and beyond.”—Alberto Moreiras, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Exhaustion of Difference: The Politics of Latin American Cultural Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eNelly Richard wrestles with the materiality of critique so that it maintains the inscriptions of antagonism, making it an indispensable instrument for an effective democratic culture. In \u003ci\u003eMasculine\/Feminine\u003c\/i\u003e, that antagonism is explored through a consideration of gender and how authority and power weave their apparent neutrality and objectivity in the masculine register. The disruptive feminist strategies deployed by the writers and artists considered here beckon to an elsewhere where creativity, fantasy, pleasure, taste, and style mingle in the ‘figural and strategic repertoires of seduction and sedition.’”—George Yúdice, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Expediency of Culture: Uses of Culture in the Global Era\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslator’s Acknowledgments vii \u003cbr\u003e Translator’s Preface ix \u003cbr\u003e Note on This Translation xiii \u003cbr\u003e ONE Spatial Politics: Cultural Criticism and Feminist Theory 1\u003cbr\u003e TWO Does Writing Have a Gender? 17 \u003cbr\u003e THREE Politics and Aesthetics of the Sign 29\u003cbr\u003e FOUR Gender Contortions and Sexual Doubling: Tranvestite Parody 43\u003cbr\u003e FIVE Feminism and Postmodernism 55\u003cbr\u003e Notes 69\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 81\u003cbr\u003e Index 87\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406035525975,"sku":"9780822333142","price":18.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822333142.jpg?v=1730494320","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/masculinefeminine-9780822333142","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}