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This book provides comprehensive insights into the concept of gender in an international context. By focusing on diverse and varied critical approaches, it explores how gender identities are shaped by socio-cultural factors, and provides a map of how gender experiences are understood and represented in the arts and society. Through an analysis of both focal and local experiences of gender within a global context, the contributions to this volume create a continuum in which gender and experience stand at a crossroads within the arts. Moreover, this crossroads intersects with the cultural determinations that some of the contributors explore in a critical way. Consequently, this volume represents a necessary contribution to the new maps of gender that are currently being set for the future. The book will appeal to academic scholars interested in the articulation of gender in traditional discourses, as well as the many deconstructions that have been undertaking in the recent past and the present. In addition, the volume is suitable for use in programmes and modules for undergraduate students of feminist and gender studies, cultural studies, sociology, literature, and popular culture, among other disciplines

The human body becomes the place where historical, cultural, social, political and gender wounds can be inscribed. The fragility of the human body is one of the main topics in Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2008). In this sense, the Dominican past of the main characters and their new lives in the United States are quite important in their physical and psychological growth. The main characters find themselves in a liminal space from where they have to decide whether to change the negative cultural aspects and adapt to their new experiences as a self in-between or to remain as their old selves. The main characters are frustrated because they do not fit into the cultural canons. On the one hand, violence becomes for them the only way to relieve their frustrations. On the other one, the lack of violence becomes the best way to put an end to their past suffering and to achieve a new identity that fits with the new circumstances. Their final outcome will depend on their decisions. ; El cuerpo humano puede verse como un libro en el que se reflejan las heridas históricas, culturales, sociales, políticas y de género. La fragilidad del cuerpo como recipiente cultural es uno de los temas centrales en The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2008). El pasado dominicano de los protagonistas y su vida actual en Estados Unidos marcan tanto su desarrollo psicológico como físico. Los personajes se encuentran en un estado liminal donde deben decidir si cambiar los aspectos culturales negativos y adaptarse a las nuevas experiencias que su estado liminal demanda. La salvación o no de estos personajes depende de esta decisión. La violencia se convierte en una manera de verbalizar sus frustraciones por no representar lo que se espera de ellos/as. Sin embargo, la falta de violencia se convierte en la manera más eficaz de acabar con el sufrimiento pasado y conseguir una identidad adaptada a las nuevas circunstancias.

El cuerpo humano puede verse como un libro en el que se reflejan las heridas históricas, culturales, sociales, políticas y de género. La fragilidad del cuerpo como recipiente cultural es uno de los temas centrales en The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2008). El pasado dominicano de los protagonistas y su vida actual en Estados Unidos marcan tanto su desarrollo psicológico como físico. Los personajes se encuentran en un estado liminal donde deben decidir si cambiar los aspectos culturales negativos y adaptarse a las nuevas experiencias que su estado liminal demanda. La salvación o no de estos personajes depende de esta decisión. La violencia se convierte en una manera de verbalizar sus frustraciones por no representar lo que se espera de ellos/as. Sin embargo, la falta de violencia se convierte en la manera más eficaz de acabar con el sufrimiento pasado y conseguir una identidad adaptada a las nuevas circunstancias. ; The human body becomes the place where historical, cultural, social, political and gender wounds can be inscribed. The fragility of the human body is one of the main topics in Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2008). In this sense, the Dominican past of the main characters and their new lives in the United States are quite important in their physical and psychological growth. The main characters find themselves in a liminal space from where they have to decide whether to change the negative cultural aspects and adapt to their new experiences as a self in-between or to remain as their old selves. The main characters are frustrated because they do not fit into the cultural canons. On the one hand, violence becomes for them the only way to relieve their frustrations. On the other one, the lack of violence becomes the best way to put an end to their past suffering and to achieve a new identity that fits with the new circumstances. Their final outcome will depend on their decisions.