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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780833703321

Autore

Danielson Marivel T.

Titolo

Homecoming Queers : Desire and Difference in Chicana Latina Cultural Production / / Marivel T. Danielson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, NJ : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2009]

©2009

ISBN

0-8135-4837-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Collana

Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the

Disciplina

700.86/643

Soggetti

American literature -- Hispanic American authors -- History and criticism

American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism

Hispanic Americans in the performing arts

Home in literature

Lesbians' writings, American -- History and criticism

American literature - Hispanic American authors - History and criticism

American literature - Women authors - History and criticism

Lesbians' writings, American - History and criticism

Home in literature - Intellectual life

Hispanic American lesbians

Space in literature

American Literature

English

Languages & Literatures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. Queering Home: Desire Meets Theory Meets Art -- 2. Speaking Selves: Language and Identity in Transition -- 3. Moving Violations: Performing the Limits of Representation in Marga Gomez’s jaywalker -- 4. The Birdy and the Bees: Queer Chicana Girlhood in Carla Trujillo’s What Night Brings -- 5. Complicating Community: Terri de la Peña, Cristina Serna, Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Ela Troyano, and Carmelita Tropicana -- 6.



Performing the Erotics of Home: Monica Palacios, Marga Gomez, and Carmelita Tropicana -- 7. Dancing with Devils: Gendered Violence in Novels by Emma Pérez and Achy Obejas -- 8. Our Art Is Our Weapon: Women of Color Transforming Academia -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Homecoming Queers provides a critical discussion of the multiple strategies used by queer Latina authors and artists in the United States to challenge silence and invisibility within mainstream media, literary canons, and theater spaces. Marivel T. Danielson's analysis reveals the extensive legacy of these cultural artists, including novelists, filmmakers, students and activists, comedians, performers, and playwrights. By clearly discussing the complexities and universalities of ethnic, racial, sexual, gender, and class intersections between queer Chicana and U.S. Latinas, Danielson explores the multiple ways identity shapes and shades creative expression. Weaknesses and gaps are revealed in the treatment of difference as a whole, within dominant and marginalized communities. Spanning multiple genres and forms, and including scholarly theory alongside performances, films, narratives, and testimonials, Homecoming Queers leads readers along a crucial path toward understanding and overcoming the silences that previously existed across these fields.