Scott, Renée Sum

Dr. Renée Sum Scott is Associate Professor of Hispanic Literatures at the University of North Florida. She earned her Ph.D. in Hispanic Literatures from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Scott has published Escritoras uruguayas: una antología crítica (Trilce, 2002) and Christopher Empson: The Far Horizons – Thirty Years Among the Gauchos of Uruguay (Rosenberg, 2002), along with numerous journal articles.

Unveiling the Body in Hispanic Women's Literature

2006 0-7734-5673-2
This book is the first book to include women authors from Hispanic regions never before brought together in one text to examine how women’s bodies reveal complex exchanges between political representations, self-definitions and gender designations. Although past scholars have considered discourses of women’s bodies a propos food and cooking, power relations, and gender negotiations, few explore how Hispanic women authors represent it. This book uses the most influential currents in existing literary criticism – from postcolonial theory to psychoanalytical literary criticism, from postmodern cultural studies to French and American feminisms – to correct past oversights and reveal bold new ways in which authors from Spain, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States address the body. With accessible language that does not sacrifice intellectual rigor, it appeals to an array of academic demands, provoking new debate on female identity, literary authority, race, gender, queerness, and sexuality from the 19th century to the present.