Transnational Borderlands in Women's Global Networks

Transnational Borderlands: The Making of Cultural Resistance in Women's Global Networks investigates the implications of transnational feminist methodologies at multiple levels: collective actions, theory, pedagogy, discursive, and visual productions. It addresses a substantial gap in the field of transnational feminisms; namely, the absence of a voice that links social and theoretical outcomes to the politics of representation in literature, visual art, discourses of rights and citizenships, and pedagogy. The book encompasses three categories of relevance to contemporary transnational methodologies: the politics of cultural representation in literature and visual art, the de-centering of human/women's rights, and pedagogies of crossing and dissent. Given current interest in the cultures of globalization and the role women and other minorities play in them, we expect this book will appeal to scholars in the fields of Women's and Gender Studies, Borderlands Studies, Transnational Studies, and to anyone interested in how transnational processes shape a culture of resistance in women's global networks.

'Transnational Borderlands is a book about the intricate connections between local and global sites that women occupy in transnational networks' . The broad spectrum of this volume will appeal to scholars in the fields of Women's and Gender Studies, Transnational Studies, Latin American and Middle Eastern Studies, and to anyone interested in the intersection between activism and globalization. (Enrique Ávila López, Letras Femeninas, 2015)

Autorentext
Clara Román-Odio is Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature and Director of Latino/a Studies at Kenyon College, USA.

Inhalt
PART I: GLOBALIZATION, TRANSNATIONALISMS, AND THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION IN THE BORDERLANDS Transnational Feminism, Globalization, and the Politics of Representation in Chicana Visual Art; C.Román-Odio Markings on the Walls: Writing in Opposition in Alicia Gaspar de Alba's Desert Blood ; I.Mata Global Patagonia: Belén Gache's Nomadic Writings; M.Sierra Family Imaginaries and Postmemory in Chilean Narrative: Andrea Jeftanovic's Escenario de Guerra and Lina Meruane's Cercada ; B.Llanos Iraqi Women, Jewish Men, and Global Noises in Two Texts by Ya'qub Balbul; O.Bashkin PART II: TRANSNATIONAL DECENTERING OF HUMAN/WOMEN'S RIGHTS Race, Gender, and Human Rights: A Glimpse into the Transnational Feminist Organization of Afro-Brazilian Women; J.Franklin Shaping Political Discourse on Women's Rights: The Role of Women in the Amendment of Gender Policies in Turkey; G.A.Marshall Trouble in the Global Village: A Snapshot of LGBT Community in Eastern Europe; A.Klosowska PART III: PEDAGOGIES OF CROSSING AND DISSENT The Vagina Monologues: Theoretical, Pedagogical, and Geopolitical Concerns; K.Williams The Long Table Model: Bringing Transnational Feminist Debates to a Small University in Iowa; K.Strzepek, B. Jacobson, & K.Van Blair