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

Format:

Book

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:

1 online resource (523 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

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 word, performance activism, fashion, and street theater as points of entry, contributors discuss cultural practices and the fashoning of identity in Latino/a communities throughout the US. Examining the areas of crossover between Latin and American cultures gives new meaning to the notion of ""borderlands."" This volume features senior scholars and up-and-coming academics from cultural, visual, and performance stud

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 Gutierrez-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 Perez

"Te amo, te amo, te amo": Lorenzo Antonio and Sparx performing Nuevo Mexico 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 Perez

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-60873-1

9786613921185

0-253-00877-8

OCLC:

812919448