Overview
- The first book-length study of the representation of female domestic labor in Latin American film
- Includes analyses of films from Mexico, Colombia, Perú, Chile, Argentina, and Brazil
- Explores how figures in the discussed films transcend their functional roles and become complex subjects that problematize hierarchical power structures within family and new socioeconomic orders
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This volume explores the character of the domestic worker in twenty-first century Latin American cinema and analyzes how recent filmic representations of the housemaid question the marginalization of domestic servants, in particular women, by making them the center of their narratives, their families, and society. The essays in this book posit the female domestic worker as an emergent subjectivity, a complex character who problematizes and contests the hierarchical power structures within the family dynamics and new socioeconomic orders found in contemporary Latin America.
Readers will find a variety of representations across the continent as well as transnational commonalities of the cinematic figure and role of the housemaid, including the negotiation of a multilayered politics of affection in the framework of prevalent paternalism, and the complex and contradictory dynamic between private and public spaces, where domestic paid labor occupies a central role in maintaining gender, class, and ethnic inequalities.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Elizabeth Osborne, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of World Languages, Worcester State University, USA.
Sofía Ruiz-Alfaro, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Linguistics, Franklin and Marshall College, USA.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Domestic Labor in Twenty-First Century Latin American Cinema
Editors: Elizabeth Osborne, Sofía Ruiz-Alfaro
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33296-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-33295-2Published: 03 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-33298-3Published: 03 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-33296-9Published: 02 January 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 242
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations
Topics: Latin American Cinema and TV, Latin American Culture, Culture and Gender, Global Cinema and TV, Women's Studies