1st Edition

The Art of Ana Clavel Ghosts, Urinals, Dolls, Shadows and Outlaw Desires

By Jane Elizabeth Lavery Copyright 2015
    288 Pages
    by Routledge

    288 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book demonstrates how Ana Clavel continues the tradition of both her predecessors and contemporaries by focusing on questions of gender. It discusses the relationship between queerness, multimedia interventions, and literature in Clavel's works and her multimedia public persona.

    Introduction: Ana Clavel and the Boom Femenino: Continuities and Queer Disruptions 1. Outlaw' Sexualities and Desires in Ana Clavel's Short Fiction 2. Los deseos y su sombra: Truth, (Ghostly) Selves, and (Multimedia) Luminous Shadows 3. Cuerpo náufrago: Gender Troubling, Queer Desires, and Fantastical (Dis)embodiments 4. Cuerpo náufrago: Genre Troubling: Viscerality and Urinals as Textual and Visual Markers of Disruption 5. Cuerpo náufrago: Beyond Text: Intermediality, Inter/Hypertextuality, and Proyecto multimedia 6. Las Violetas son flores del deseo: Outer-Circle 'Perversities', Hyperreal Golema Dolls, and Textuality 7. Las Violetas son flores del deseo: Peritextuality and Reader-Spectator Complicities 8. Las Violetas son flores del deseo: Multitextuality: (Cyber) Art Installation, (Performing) Dolls, and (Multi)authorship 9. El dibujante de sombras: The Queering of Truth and a Poetics of Shadows 10. Further Queer Literary and Multimedia Interventions 11. Conclusion: Some Final Thoughts

    Biography

    Jane Elizabeth Lavery