Description: This entirely new collection of essays picks up from the 2005 Latin American Fashion Reader to explore ideas of rupture and repair in the past and present of Latin American fashion.
Brief description: Stephanie N. Saunders is Associate Professor of Spanish at Lyon College, USA. Her research focuses on body studies, space studies, migration, and identity. She is the author of Fashion, Gender and Agency in Latin American and Spanish Literature (2021).
Review Quotes:
"Offering rich, wide-ranging perspectives on the power and importance of fashion in shaping culture, politics, and human experience ... the fresh viewpoints invite thinking anew about current methodologies, approaches, and ongoing debates. A fundamental resource for future research." --Susan V. Webster, Jane Williams Mahoney Professor Emerita, Willian & Mary, USA
"A groundbreaking collection that advances critical decolonial scholarship in fashion studies ... the contributors offer sophisticated theoretical frameworks that illuminate fashion's complex entanglements with power, identity, and cultural agency. Essential reading, particularly for scholars of material culture and postcolonial studies." --Benjamin Linley Wild, Reader in Fashion Narratives, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK