Humoring Resistance Rebecca Tuvel

Humoring Resistance Rebecca TuvelAnalyzes the explosive connections among strategic uses of humor, women's bodies, and resistance in fiction by Latin American women writers. Contextualizing theoretical debates about the political uses of gendered humor and female excess, this book explores bold new ways in which a number of contemporary Latin American women authors approach questions of identity and community. The author examines the connections among strategic uses of humor, women's

The Plays of Aristophanes is an invaluable collection of comedies from a leading playwright of Ancient Greece

the book looks at other strategies-from silence to circumlocution

and other helpful tools

Gentlemen and Schoolboys: The Authority of Latin in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century England

Tying Light in Knots

[…] the narrowness of sectarianism [would] develop into a broad cosmical religion which shall be as wide and truly catholic as is science itself

Often compared to Proust

puts it in perspective

Kathleen Densmore

including many historical reviews and the authors’ own research experience

Several explore the distinct trajectories of Dalit groups in their search for religious dignity

some based on reality and others wholly imagined