‘La herida de un hombre no es una novedad’: Gender, violence and performance in Azul y no tan rosa

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-152
Author(s):  
Katie Brown
Keyword(s):  
Spanish Language ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Performance Of Gender ◽  
And Performance

Azul y no tan rosa was the first Venezuelan film to win the Goya for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film. It was also the first Venezuelan film to feature a kiss between two men, as well as an openly transgender character. At the heart of the film is a scene which cross-cuts between transsexual Delirio performing the 1980s Venezuelan pop hit ‘No soy una señora’ and a vicious homophobic attack. This scene exemplifies the film’s preoccupation with the performance of gender, its denunciation of machista violence, and its call for acceptance of difference.

Joan Pujolar, Gender, heteroglossia and power: A sociolinguistic study of youth culture. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2001. Pp. xiv, 352. Pb $29.95.

2002 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 476-479
Author(s):  
Kathryn A. Woolard
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Ethnic Identities ◽  
Systematic Exploration ◽  
Fourth Volume ◽  
Performance Of Gender ◽  
And Performance

This fourth volume in the series “Language, Power and Social Process” is an excellent ethnographic and sociolinguistic study of youth culture in Barcelona. Joan Pujolar brings research on Catalan-Spanish bilingualism into the post-structuralist era without pretense or puffery. The book is a systematic exploration of bilingual practices in relation to the variable construction and performance of gender and class as well as ethnic identities. Drawing inspiration from Bakhtin, Pujolar has an acute – and, as far as I know, unerring – sensitivity to the voices of the Catalan context.

Women, Modernism, & Performance

2006 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-144
Author(s):  
Margaret F. Savilonis
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Dramatic Literature ◽  
Theatre History ◽  
Performance Texts ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Performance Of Gender ◽  
Theatrical Practice ◽  
And Performance

Penny Farfan's Women, Modernism, & Performance, six intricately woven essays about a handful of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century female artists, is an absorbing study centered on the premise that “the feminist-modernist aesthetics of key figures in the fields of dance and literature developed in part out of their engagement with dramatic literature and theatrical practice, making their lives and work a part of theatre history” (2). Employing broad definitions of both performance and modernism, Farfan casts a wide net, adopting what she describes as a “‘maximalist’ approach” (117) to construct her arguments about these artists' contributions to “the transformation of the representation of gender in both art and life” (119). Her consideration of public performances such as courtroom trials, lectures, and “the performance of gender in the practice of everyday life” (3) informs her analysis of literary, critical, and performance texts to intriguing effect. In the process, Farfan delineates the cultural landscape out of which these women and their work emerged.

scholarly journals Knee-High Boots and Six-Pack Abs: Autoethnographic Reflections on Gender and Technology in Second Life

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Delia Dumitrica ◽  
Georgia Gaden
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Second Life ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Gender And Technology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Performance Of Gender ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Visual Element ◽  
Situated Perspective

In this paper, we explore the experience and performance of gender online in Second Life, currently one of the most popular virtual world platforms. Based on two collaborative autoethnographic projects, we propose that gender has to be explored at the intersection between our own situated perspective and the vision embedded in the social and technical infrastructure of the virtual world. For us, the visual element of a 3D world further frames the representation and performance of gender, while technical skill becomes a crucial factor in constructing our ability to play with this performance. As we recollect and interrogate our own experiences in SL, we argue that the relation between gender and virtual worlds is a complex and multifaceted one, proposing our positioned account of experiencing this relation. It is critical, we suggest, that studies of mediated experience in virtual worlds take into account the position of the researcher in ‘real’ life (IRL) as well as the dominant discourses of the environment they are immersed in. In this we must also be critical, of ourselves, our assumptions, as well as the environment itself.

“White Blood Turns Red”

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chad A. Barbour
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Comic Books ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gender Representations ◽  
Performance Of Gender ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Post War

Chapter four engages more directly with playing Indian in comic books, examining a host of titles in the 1940s and 1950s and afterwards that feature a white hero adopted by Indians or appropriating Indian ways. This depiction implements specific recurring characteristics: adoption by Indians, the white hero with Indian clothing or weapons, Indianness as strength and valor, the Indianized hero as upholder of justice on the frontier, and, in some cases, echoes of superhero conventions in a secret identity or sidekick. These stories not only engage in the frontier lineage discussed in previous chapters but also potentially reveal cultural values of the United States in the post-war years, especially concerning the construction and performance of gender, representations of nationalism and loyalty, and the construction of race and difference.

Extractive Text Summarization Methods in the Spanish Language

2021 ◽  
pp. 379-391
Author(s):  
Irvin Raul Lopez Contreras ◽  
Alejandra Mendoza Carreón ◽  
Jorge Rodas-Osollo ◽  
Martiza Concepción Varela
Keyword(s):  
Text Summarization ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Digital Documents ◽  
The World ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Web

The quantity of information in the world is increasing every day on a fast level. This fact will be an obstacle in some situations; text summarization is involved in this kind of problem. It is used to minimize the time that people spend searching for information on the web and in a lot of digital documents. In this chapter, three algorithms were compared; all of them are an extractive text summarization algorithm. Popular libraries that influence the performance of these kinds of algorithms were used. It was necessary to configure and modify these methods so that they work for the Spanish language instead of their original one. The authors use some metrics found in the literature to evaluate the quality and performance of these algorithms.

scholarly journals Variables influyentes en el miedo y el rendimiento infantil en Ceuta

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Federico Pulido-Acosta ◽  
Francisco Herrera-Clavero
Keyword(s):  
Spanish Language ◽  
Emotional Competencies ◽  
Performance Culture ◽  
Academic Achievements ◽  
Teaching Interventions ◽  
Fear Survey Schedule ◽  
Low Performance ◽  
And Performance ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Do So

The low performance in different academic areas causes an enormous preoccupation; this situation promotes the search of new formulas for teaching interventions. These fast changes cause that students must learn new abilities and capacities that let them conform to this process in continuous evolution. From this perspective, with preoccupation for the little academic achievements, the emphasis is on the enormous importance that the emotions and their suitable control for the improvement of itself could have. The objective was to reflect on the predictors of fear and the academic achievement, and the influence over each other, in children aged 6 to 12 from Ceuta City. To do so, we had 404 participants: 47.8% were boys, 52.2% girls; 68.8% were Muslims, and 31.2% Christians. As tools, we implemented the Fear Survey Schedule for Children and Adolescents-II (FSSC-II), the version that Ascensio et al. (2012) adapted to the Spanish language; we also used the children’s grades. The results showed medium-high levels on all of the research variables. The first predictor of fear was gender. Other predictors were status, performance, culture, and age. The predictors of performance were culture, fear, status, and gender. Age worked as a predictor in three factors. We have found a significant relationship between fear and performance. All this leads to consider and increase the emotional competencies as a necessary measure to improve the students’ process of learning, a situation needed in our education system.

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