Sexuality and the discursive construction of the digital self in the Global South
Edited by Nell Haynes and Baird Campbell
Special issue of Journal of Language and Sexuality 9:1 (2020) v, 100 pp.
Nell Haynes
List of John Benjamins publications for which Nell Haynes plays a role.
Title
Subjects Discourse studies | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
2020 Constructing the digital self in the Global South Sexuality and the discursive construction of the digital self in the Global South, Haynes, Nell and Baird Campbell (eds.), pp. 1–13 | Introduction
The papers in this special section examine how people in various contexts of the Global South “construct the self” in online spaces. With examples from Chile, Senegal, and Trinidad, the papers show the wide range of discursive practices, encompassing the textual and the aesthetic, which… read more
2020 ‘Overloaded like a Bolivian truck’: Discursive constructions of gender, race, and nationalism in northern Chilean memes Sexuality and the discursive construction of the digital self in the Global South, Haynes, Nell and Baird Campbell (eds.), pp. 69–92 | Article
Memes have become an important linguistic tool not only for communicating emotions and ideas, but also are integral to constructing the self in online space. This paper concentrates on copper miners in northern Chile and the ways they use memes to make claims related to (hetero)sexuality,… read more
2016 Kiss with a fist: The chola’s humor and humiliation in Bolivian lucha libre Transnational discourses of peripheral sexualities in the Hispanic world, Horswell, Michael J. and Nuria Godón (eds.), pp. 250–275 | Article
Lucha libre, a form of exhibition wrestling, has recently gained popularity in Bolivia, thanks to mixed-gender matches featuring traditionally-dressed women known as the cholitas luchadoras. Within their matches, the act of kissing is often used as a form of humiliating an opponent. This… read more