Performing the US Latina & Latino borderlands / edited by Arturo J. Aldama, Chela Sandoval, & Peter J. García.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Aldama, Arturo J., 1964-

Sandoval, Chela, 1956-

García, Peter J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hispanic Americans in the performing arts.

Hispanic Americans--Ethnic identity.

Hispanic Americans.

Physical Description:

xv, 504 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Performing the US Latina and Latino borderlands

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2012]

Summary:

In this interdisciplinary volume, contributors analyze the expression of Latina/o cultural identity-through performance. With music theater, dance, visual arts, body art, spoken v word, performance activism, fashion, and street theater as points of entry, contributors discuss cultural practices and the fashioning of identity in Latino/a communities throughout the United States. Examining the areas of crossover between Latina/o and American cultures gives new meaning to the notion of "borderlands." This volume features work from scholars in cultural, visual, and performance studies, folklore, and ethnomusicology. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: toward a de-colonial performatics of the US Latina and Latino borderlands / Chela Sandoval, Arturo J. Aldama, and Peter J. García

Performing emancipation: inner work, public acts. Body as codex-ized word / Cuerpo Como Palabra (en-)Códice-ado: Chicana/Indígena and Mexican transnational performative indigeneities / Micaela Díaz-Sánchez

Milongueando macha homoerotics: dancing the tango, torta style (a performative testimonio) / Maria Lugones

The other train that derails us: performing Latina anxiety disorder in "The night before Christmas" / Angie Chabram-Dernersesian

The art of place: the work of Diane Gamboa / Karen Mary Davalos

Human rights, conditioned choices, and performance in Ana Castillo's Mixquihuala letters / Carl Gutiérrez-Jones

Decolonizing gender performativity: a thesis for emancipation in early Chicana feminist thought (1969-1979) / Daphne V. Taylor-García

Ethnographies of performance: the Río Grande and beyond. Performing indigeneity in a South Texas community: los matachines de La Santa Cruz / Norma E. Cantú

Re-membering Chelo Silva: the bolero in chicana perspective (women's bodies and voices in postrevolutionary urbanization: the bohemian, urban, and transnational) / Yolanda Broyles-González

Roland Barthes, mojado, in brownface: chisme-laced snapshots documenting the preposterous and fact-laced claim that the postmodern was born along the borders of the Río Grande River / William Anthony Nericcio

Decolonial border queers: case studies of chicana/o lesbians, gay men, and transgender folks in El Paso/Juárez / Emma Pérez

"Te amo, te amo, te amo": Lorenzo Antonio and Sparx performing Nuevo México music / Peter J. García

Sonic geographies and anti-border musics: "we didn't cross the border, the borders crossed us" / Roberto D. Hernández

Lila Downs's borderless performance: transculturation and musical communication / Brenda M. Romero

Nepantla aesthetics in the trans/nacional el macho: how the women of Teatro Luna became men / Paloma Martínez-Cruz and Liza Ann Acosta

Suturing las ramblas to East LA: transnational performances of Josefina López's Real women have curves / Tiffany Ana López

Loving revolution: same-sex marriage and queer resistance in Monica palacios's Amor y revolución / Marivel T. Danielson

Is Ugly Betty a real woman? representations of Chicana femininity inscribed as a site of (transformative) difference / Jennifer Esposito

Indian icon, gay macho: Felipe Rose of Village people / Gabriel S. Estrada

(De)criminalizing bodies: ironies of performance. No somos criminales: crossing borders in contemporary Latina and Latino music / Arturo J. Aldama

"Pelones y matones": chicano cholos perform for a punitive audience / Victor M. Rios and Patrick Lopez-Aguado

Mexican hip hop: male expressive culture / Pancho McFarland

The Latino comedy project and border humor in performance / Jennifer Alvarez Dickinson

(Re)examining the Latin lover: screening chicano/latino sexualities / Daniel Enrique Pérez

Rumba's democratic circle in the age of legal simulacra / Berta Jottar-Palenzuela.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780253002952

0253002958

9780253005748

0253005744

9780253008770

0253008778

OCLC:

756596905