Date of Award
5-2025
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts
Department
Art
First Advisor
Stefanie Snider
Second Advisor
Gabriela Romero
Third Advisor
Khristin Landry
Abstract
This thesis explores the ways in which Contemporary Latin American feminist artists have been able to subvert the Western constructed ideas of gender that work to locate the feminine Other as subordinate and inferior. Focusing on the installations and performances by Johanna Hamann, María Evelia Marmolejo, and Regina José Galindo, there is an emphasis on the role of the abject which is used to defamiliarize our established concepts of the traditional feminine in order to allow space for a redefinition and portrayal that excludes a detrimental modern semiology rooted in a zero point epistemology. By analyzing these artists' works in conjunction with Julia Kristeva’s theory of the abject, the intent becomes to convey how they incorporate forms of resistance to counter hegemonic gender narratives that maintain a perpetual cycle of limiting normatives within systems of patriarchal and colonial structures.
Recommended Citation
Myers, Sierra, "Countering the Traditional Feminine: The Abject in the Works of Johanna Hamann, María Evelia Marmolejo, and Regina José Galindo" (2025). Theses. 1399.
https://digitalcommons.lindenwood.edu/theses/1399
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