1st Edition
Colombian Diasporic Identities Representations in Literature, Film, Theater and Art
Introduction
1: Visualizing the invisible: the novels of Patricia Engel
2: Queering Caribbean identity and language: LGBTQ+ novels and memoirs from the Colombian diaspora; Jaime Manrique, Julián Delgado Lopera and Daisy Hernández
3: Diasporic hair: mapping out Afro-Colombian identity in the film La Playa D.C. (2012)
4: Remixing, repeating and reinterpreting: John Leguizamo on being a Ghetto Klown
5: Reappropriating impositions: a conversation with Gonzalo Fuenmayor
Biography
Annie Mendoza is Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages, Philosophy and Religion at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania where she teaches courses on Latin American and US Latinx literature, film, culture as well as language. She received her PhD at the University of California, San Diego in 2010. She is the author of Rewriting the Nation: Novels by Women on Violence in Colombia (2015) and has published essays in peer- reviewed journals such as Revista de Estudios Colombianos, Zapruder World: An International Journal for the History of Social Conflict, Voces del Caribe: Revista de Estudios Caribeños, Intervenxions (by the Latinx Project at New York University) and the anthology Poemas y cantos: antología crítica de autoras afrodescendientes de América Latina.
