The Art of Ana Clavel: Ghosts, Urinals, Dolls, Shadows and Outlaw Desires
The Art of Ana Clavel: Ghosts, Urinals, Dolls, Shadows and Outlaw Desires
Ana Clavel is a remarkable contemporary Mexican writer whose literary and multimedia oeuvre is marked by its queerness. The queer is evinced in the manner in which she disturbs conceptions of the normal not only by representing ‘outlaw’ sexualities and ‘dark’ desires but also by incorporating into her fictive and multimedia worlds that which is at odds with normalcy as evinced in the presence of the fantastical, the shadow, ghosts, cyborgs, golems and even urinals.
Clavel’s literary trajectory follows a queer path in the sense that she has moved from singular modes of creative expression in the form of literary writing, a traditional print medium, towards other non-literary forms. Some of Clavel’s works have formed the basis of wider multimedia projects involving collaboration with various artists, photographers, performers and IT experts. Her works embrace an array of hybrid forms including the audiovisual, internet-enabled technology, art installation, (video) performance and photography. By foregrounding the queer heterogeneous narrative themes, techniques and multimedia dimension of Clavel’s oeuvre, the aim of this monograph is to attest to her particular contribution to Hispanic letters, which arguably is as significant as that of more established Spanish American boom femenino women writers
978-1-907975-65-3
Lavery, Jane Elizabeth
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16 March 2015
Lavery, Jane Elizabeth
d050c560-2005-4f27-bb70-c79f12f39e93
Lavery, Jane Elizabeth
(2015)
The Art of Ana Clavel: Ghosts, Urinals, Dolls, Shadows and Outlaw Desires
(Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures, 6),
Cambridge.
Legenda, 278pp.
Abstract
Ana Clavel is a remarkable contemporary Mexican writer whose literary and multimedia oeuvre is marked by its queerness. The queer is evinced in the manner in which she disturbs conceptions of the normal not only by representing ‘outlaw’ sexualities and ‘dark’ desires but also by incorporating into her fictive and multimedia worlds that which is at odds with normalcy as evinced in the presence of the fantastical, the shadow, ghosts, cyborgs, golems and even urinals.
Clavel’s literary trajectory follows a queer path in the sense that she has moved from singular modes of creative expression in the form of literary writing, a traditional print medium, towards other non-literary forms. Some of Clavel’s works have formed the basis of wider multimedia projects involving collaboration with various artists, photographers, performers and IT experts. Her works embrace an array of hybrid forms including the audiovisual, internet-enabled technology, art installation, (video) performance and photography. By foregrounding the queer heterogeneous narrative themes, techniques and multimedia dimension of Clavel’s oeuvre, the aim of this monograph is to attest to her particular contribution to Hispanic letters, which arguably is as significant as that of more established Spanish American boom femenino women writers
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Published date: 16 March 2015
Additional Information:
An Mexican news report with the author (in Spanish) is available at: http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/cultura/letras/2015/07/28/estudian-la-obra-multimedia-de-ana-clavel-0
The online version of the book was published by Routledge in 2017.
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ISBN: 978-1-907975-65-3
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