Domestic Labor in Twenty-First Century Latin American Cinema

by Elizabeth Osborne

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030332985
• ISBN13: 9783030332983
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"