Othered Subjectivities: Anti-patriarchal Discourse of Resistance

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

The constant silencing and marginalization of female and non-heteronormative bodies characterize heteropatriarchal discourse. As the dominant rhetoric, heteropatriarchy, as critiqued and theorized by queer, feminist, and postcolonial studies, has established systems of oppression and exclusion that reduce women and non-heterosexual subjects to a position of lesser humanity. The artistic work of the oppressed often constitutes a political act of resistance where the articulations of other identities and knowledge are possible. It is imperative for anti-hegemonic works to dialogue with national and global contexts to negotiate new spaces of resistance.

This panel analyzes through different experiences in Mexico, Ecuador, Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and the United States, how the identities of women and non-heteronormative subjects have been articulated and how they have been displaced to marginal spaces by the heteropatriarchal discourse. Through an interdisciplinary perspective--informed by queer and feminist theories, critical race theory, psychoanalysis, and film theory-- which gathers and puts into dialogue the contributions of literature, cinema, and performance, the panelists analyze methods of resistance, subversion, and radical passivity that challenge hegemonic discourses with the objective of making visible the identities and the roles of non-heteropatriarchal subjects in the nation-state.

Sub Track

• Sexualities and LGBTQ Studies

Session Organizers

• Vialcary Crisostomo Tejada, University of Connecticut

• Natalie Hernández, University of Connecticut

Chair

• Vialcary Crisostomo Tejada, University of Connecticut

Individual Presentations

• Mediating the Mediator: The Witch in Mexican Cinema - Ana S Almeyda-Cohen, Graduate Student

• Las identidades femme y femenina: la poesía de Elvira Castillo y Sonia Guiñansaca - Natalie Hernández, University of Connecticut

• "La patría líquida": Abniel Marat’s Theatrical Imaginings of Diasporic Assemblages - Natalia M Rivera Morales, University of Pittsburgh

• Queer poetics: Rita Indiana Hernández and Subversive Spaces - Vialcary Crisostomo Tejada, University of Connecticut