Vannina Sztainbok
Biographic Data
| ID | 224512 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vannina Sztainbok |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vannina |
| FAMILY NAME | Sztainbok |
| SIGNATURE | SZTAINBOK V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Making Terror Intelligible
Sherene Razack argues that codified narratives of torture constitute community and subjects as much as torture itself does. In the context of the authoritarian regimes that ruled Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay in the 1970s and 1980s, torture constitutes a major preoccupation in scholarly work as well as in plays, films, and novels. This article builds on Razack’s argument by exploring how torture is narrated in three influential plays: Mario Bened…
Exposing her body, revealing the nation
This essay examines the significance of a ‘self-objectifying’ carnival performance that draws upon stereotypes of sexualized black femininity. The scholarship in this area has focused on whether performers reify or contest dominant stereotypes. I shift the lens from the performer to the audience. Specifically I examine fan responses to Rosa Luna (1937–1993), an Afro-Uruguayan Carnival vedette who became synonymous with Montevideo's annual Carniva…
National Pleasures
This article examines the autobiography of white Uruguayan artist Carlos Páez Vilaró, read contrapuntally with the autobiographical accounts of several Afro-Uruguayans contained in the book Historias de Exclusión: Afrodescendientes en el Uruguay, including that of late painter Ruben Galloza (1926–2002). I argue that the fetishization of the black figure–evident in Páez Vilaró, but speaking of and through a larger context–constitutes whiteness and…
Losing Strangeness
This paper explores ways of using culture and cultural practices as an informing principle in ESL teaching. To research culture and ESL teaching, we conducted focus groups with teachers in an urban ethnically diverse school in Toronto, Canada and their student teachers during their month-long practica in the school as a part of a Bachelor of Education programme. As instructors in the teacher education programme, we set out to find ways of infusin…
Losing Strangeness
This paper explores ways of using culture and cultural practices as an informing principle in ESL teaching. To research culture and ESL teaching, we conducted focus groups with teachers in an urban ethnically diverse school in Toronto, Canada and their student teachers during their month-long practica in the school as a part of a Bachelor of Education programme. As instructors in the teacher education programme, we set out to find ways of infusin…
Exposing her body, revealing the nation
This essay examines the significance of a ‘self-objectifying’ carnival performance that draws upon stereotypes of sexualized black femininity. The scholarship in this area has focused on whether performers reify or contest dominant stereotypes. I shift the lens from the performer to the audience. Specifically I examine fan responses to Rosa Luna (1937–1993), an Afro-Uruguayan Carnival vedette who became synonymous with Montevideo's annual Carniva…
Losing Strangeness
This paper explores ways of using culture and cultural practices as an informing principle in ESL teaching. To research culture and ESL teaching, we conducted focus groups with teachers in an urban ethnically diverse school in Toronto, Canada and their student teachers during their month-long practica in the school as a part of a Bachelor of Education programme. As instructors in the teacher education programme, we set out to find ways of infusin…
National Pleasures
This article examines the autobiography of white Uruguayan artist Carlos Páez Vilaró, read contrapuntally with the autobiographical accounts of several Afro-Uruguayans contained in the book Historias de Exclusión: Afrodescendientes en el Uruguay, including that of late painter Ruben Galloza (1926–2002). I argue that the fetishization of the black figure–evident in Páez Vilaró, but speaking of and through a larger context–constitutes whiteness and…
Exposing her body, revealing the nation
This essay examines the significance of a ‘self-objectifying’ carnival performance that draws upon stereotypes of sexualized black femininity. The scholarship in this area has focused on whether performers reify or contest dominant stereotypes. I shift the lens from the performer to the audience. Specifically I examine fan responses to Rosa Luna (1937–1993), an Afro-Uruguayan Carnival vedette who became synonymous with Montevideo's annual Carniva…
Making Terror Intelligible
Sherene Razack argues that codified narratives of torture constitute community and subjects as much as torture itself does. In the context of the authoritarian regimes that ruled Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay in the 1970s and 1980s, torture constitutes a major preoccupation in scholarly work as well as in plays, films, and novels. This article builds on Razack’s argument by exploring how torture is narrated in three influential plays: Mario Bened…
Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (2 works)