Resistant Bodies in the Cultural Productions of Transnational Hispanic Caribbean Women: Reimagining Queer Identity examines the art created by several Caribbean women who use literature, film, graphic novels, music, testimonios, photographs, etc. to convey social justice, democracy, and new ways of re/imaging marginal identities. In using Chela Sandoval's theories on methodologies of the oppressed, Irune del Rio Gabiola argues how the tactics Sandoval offers can be productively applied to the cultural productions analyzed. The author explores how the protagonists of all the cultural productions this book focuses on developing tactics to create new possibilities and alternatives for self-fashioning. Particularly, del Rio Gabiola reconsiders concepts such as shame, failure, unbecoming, hermeneutics of love or flexible bodies as methodologies of the oppressed that propose decolonizing emancipatory techniques in a transnational arena.

By Irune del Rio Gabiola

Contents
Introduction: Dismantling Cultural Paradigms in search of Inclusivity and Revolutionary Love

Puerto Rico
Chapter 1: Shame and Failure: Positive Narratives to Re/image Queer Identity in the
Transnational Puerto Rican Context
Chapter 2: A Queer Way of Family Life: Narratives of Time and Space in Mayra Santos-Febres's Sirena Selena vestida de pena

Cuba
Chapter 3: Divas, Atrevidas y Entendidas; Cuban Hip Hop Group Krudas Cubensi ConQueering Love Across the Transnational Space
Chapter 4: Unbecoming Cuban-American: An Analysis of Cristy Road's Graphic Narratives

The Dominican Republic
Chapter 5: Flexible Bodies in Cyberspace: Representations of Dominicanidad in the art of Raquel Paiewonsky
Chapter 6: The Lesbian Body as Home: Queering Dominican Women's Experiences

Conclusion: Emancipatory Techniques in Contemporary Art in the Transnational Caribbean Context
References
About the Author