... burden, and he took on an identity as a painter, which he declared to be the most empty, obsolete, and irrelevant occupation after the war. This chapter explores Fontana’s violent gestures of slitting and puncturing the canvas as a response to abstract expressionism, which he referenced repeatedly in his...

... identity formation both with cultural change and with shifts among multiple realities. She interweaves theory with practice to define writing as “gestures of the body;” offers an overview of her aesthetics; introduces her genre theories of autohistoria and autohistoria-teoría; expands previous definitions...

...Gestures of Inscription<subtitle>African American Slave Narratives</subtitle> ...