Cindy Sherman is a post-modernist artist who uses photography to question and deconstruct traditional images of women. Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills female self-portrait “parody”, showing the performative characteristics “female behavior” in many places. Judith Butler pointed out that construction gender identity comes from “performativity”, which has connection work. Based on Butler’s theory,...

The 1960s was a particularly productive decade for Latin American literature. In those years, Latin American writers produced an astounding number of excellent novels that are marked by their incredible diversity in style and/or content. Despite their variety, however, there are some common characteristics such as the recurrent theme of metafictional concerns, the presence of intertextuality, t...