Homecoming queers [[electronic resource] ] : desire and difference in Chicana Latina cultural production / / Marivel T. Danielson

• Record Nr.: UNISA996248244703316
• Autore: Danielson Marivel T
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Brunswick, N.J, : Rutgers University Press, c2009
• ISBN: 0-8135-4572-2
• Descrizione fisica: ix, 219 p. ; ; 23 cm
• Collana: Latinadad: transnational cultures in the United States
• Soggetti: American literature - Hispanic American authors - History and criticism; American literature - Women authors - History and criticism; Lesbians' writings, American - History and criticism; Home in literature; Hispanic Americans in the performing arts; Hispanic American lesbians - Intellectual life; Space in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Queering home: desire meets theory meets art -- Speaking selves: language and identity in transition -- Moving violations: performing the limits of representation in Marga Gomez's Jaywalker -- The birdy and the bees: queer Chicana girlhood in Carla Trujillo's What night brings -- Complicating community: Terri De La Peña, Cristina Serna, Frances Negrón Muntaner, Ela Troyano, and Carmelita Tropicana -- The erotics of home: Monica Palacios, Marga Gomez, and Carmelita Tropicana -- Dancing with devils: gendered violence in novels by Emma Pérez and Achy Obejas -- Our art is our weapon: women of color transforming academia.