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"Así me gustas gordita": Representaciones de la gordura en la música popular y la literatura del Caribe hispano

This thesis examines contemporary musical and literary representations of female fatness in the Hispanic Caribbean. Chapter I explores the stereotype of a greater acceptance and valorization of fatness within the African Diaspora using contemporary feminist scholarship on cultural aesthetics and the body. Fatness is discussed as being both sexually transgressive and traditionally feminine. Chapter II juxtaposes male representations of “la gorda” in the lyrics of popular music of from Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico with the feminist politics of underground hip hop. Chapter III analyzes Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s hyperbolic representation of La Estrella, his fictionalization of Cuban bolero singer Fredy Rodriguez, in Ella cantaba boleros y “Metafinal” (1996). The aquatic subtexts and grotesque characterization of La Estrella’s body construct her as an icon of musical authenticity and exceptionality as well as a symbol of strength and resistance.

  1. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/279
Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:uvic.ca/oai:dspace.library.uvic.ca:1828/279
Date17 December 2007
CreatorsBraden, Emily
ContributorsDe Alba-Koch, Beatriz
Source SetsUniversity of Victoria
LanguageEnglish, Spanish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis
RightsAvailable to the World Wide Web

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