The Un/Making of Latina/o Citizenship

Culture, Politics, and Aesthetics
2014. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-349-49223-7
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 273 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

Reihe: Literatures of the Americas

Examining a wide range of source material including popular culture, literature, photography, television, and visual art, this collection of essays sheds light on the misrepresentations of Latina/os in the mass media.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hernández, E.

Gibson, E Rodriguez y

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Fragen & Probleme

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Ellie D. Hernández and Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson 1. Dyad or Dialectic? Deconstructing Chicana/Latina Identity Politics; Alicia Gaspar de Alba 2. Drag Racing the Neoliberal Circuit: Latina/o Camp and the Contingencies of Resistance; Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson 3. Twenty-First Century New Mexican Road Trip: Reclaiming Ceremony, Music, Time and Land; Chela Sandoval and Peter J. García 4. The Importance of the Heart in Chicana Artistry: Aesthetic Struggle, Aisthesis, 'Freedom" Juan Mah y Busch 5. The Political Implications of Playing Hopefully: A Negotiation of the Present and the Utopic in Queer Theory and Latina/o Literature; Kristie Soares 6. Cherríe Moraga's Changing Consciousness of Solidarity; Araceli Esparza 7. Revolutionary Love: Bridging Differential Terrains of Empire; Cathyrn Josefina Merla-Watson 8. The Postmodern Monument: An Analysis of Citizenship, Representation, and Monuments in Three Acts; Ella Maria Diaz 9. Sucking Vulnerability: Neoliberalism, the Chupacabras, and the Post Cold-War Years; William Calvo 10. Pictures of Resistance: Recasting Labor and Immigration in the Global City; Irene Mata

Über Autor(innen)

Alicia Gaspar de Alba, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Peter J. García, California State University, Northridge, USA
Chela Sandoval, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Juan D. Mah y Busch, Loyola Marymount University, USA
Kristie Soares, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Araceli Esparza, California State University, Long Beach, USA
Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson, University of Texas, San Antonio, USA
Ella Maria Diaz, Cornell University, USA
William A. Calvo, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Irene Mata, Wellesley College, USA