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

• Autore: Danielson Marivel T.
• Pubblicazione: New Brunswick, NJ : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (234 p.)
• Disciplina: 700.86/643
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Homecoming Queers
• ISBN: 0-8135-4837-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780833703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II