Pascual, Nieves, Laura Alonso-Gallo & Francisco Collado-Rodríguez, eds. Masculinities, Femininities and the Power of the Hybrid in U.S. Narratives: Essays on Gender Borders, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag, 2007
The volume comprises a collection of eighteen essays that address topics ranging from feminism to issues on masculinity, from prose to poetry, from written literature to the cinema. The arrangement of the essays in three differentiated parts should be viewed from a certain ironic angle: the feminine and the masculine interconnect, fuse, and collide often in life and in text, and no selection of critical topics can avoid the permanent bouncing of gender and sexual marks. The first two sections tend towards the hybrid of the third part, into an open territory of ideological and body conflicts, of emotion and matter, race and religion, issues that continue to exert a powerful influence on our current performances as human beings.
Contents:
Francisco Collado-Rodríguez, Laura Alonso-Gallo & Nieves Pascual, "Fighting Limits: Masculinities, Femininities and the Hybrid at the turn of the Millennium"
M. Aichih Wehbe Herrera, La Laguna, "Smashed To Pieces: Portrait(s) of the Self(ves) in The Mixquiahuala Letters"
Helen Huff, New York, "The Haunting of Celebrity and the Construction of Nationalism: Charlotte Cushman's Benefit Performances as Lady Macbeth for the U.S. Sanitary Commission, 1863"
Heinz Ickstadt, Berlin, Finding Voice in Fragmentation Negotiations of (Female) Identity in North American Migrant Texts
Amelia Howe Kritzer, St. Thomas. St. Paul, "Travelers, Voyagers, Adventurers: Young Women in Early19th-Century Plays by American Women"
Barbara Lewis, Massachusetts-Boston, "Mistress of Myself: Love in a Time of Transition"
Matilde Martín González La Laguna, "Engendering Experimental Poetry: Women Poetry Anthologies and Feminist Theories"
María Goicoechea de Jorge & Asunción López-Varela, Madrid, "Androids, Gynoids and Cyborgs: Applying Bem‚s Theory of Psychological Androgyny to CyberFeminist Reader-Response Criticism"
Hilaria Loyo, Zaragoza, "Forms of Beset Manhood in An American Tragedy: From Dreiser to von Sternberg and Stevens"
Cristelle Maury, Montpellier, "Fighting their Way to Eroticism: How the Representation of the Male Body in Postwar American Film Noir Strikes Doubt into Masculinity"
Milette Shamir, Tel Aviv, "Domestic(ated) Partners: Rereading the Myth of Interracial Fraternity from The Deerslayer to Lethal Weapon"
Stefan L. Brandt, Berlin, "A Room Far Out: Ethnic/Sexual Borderlands and the Discursive Limits of Space in 1950s African American Literature"
Francisco Collado-Rodríguez, Zaragoza, "From Theory to Practice: Blank Fiction, Ethics, and Hybridism in Palahniuk‚s Stranger Than Fiction and Invisible Monsters"
J. Ignacio Guijarro González, Sevilla, "Don‚t Know Much About (Multicultural) History: Teaching the Texan Conflicts in John Sayles' Film Lone Star"
Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz, Deusto, "Pat Conroy's The Prince[ss?] of Tides: The Relation of Region and Religion to Gender Issues"
Silvia Martínez Falquina, Zaragoza, "Gender Diversity in Native America: A Postindian Re/Vision of Borders"
Venla Oikkonen, Helsinki, "The Final Clause in a Periodic Sentence: Sexing Difference in Middlesex"
Nieves Pascual, Jaén, "The Anorexic Cyborg"