Fatherhood in the borderlands : a daughter's slow approach/ Domino Renee Perez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perez, Domino Renee, 1967- author.

Series:

Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Perez, Domino Renee, 1967-.

Perez, Domino Renee.

Mexican Americans in literature--Case studies.

Mexican Americans in literature.

Mexican Americans in motion pictures--Case studies.

Mexican Americans in motion pictures.

Fathers in literature--Case studies.

Fathers in literature.

Fathers in motion pictures--Case studies.

Fathers in motion pictures.

Fatherhood in literature--Case studies.

Fatherhood in literature.

Fatherhood in motion pictures--Case studies.

Fatherhood in motion pictures.

Genre:

Case studies

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2022.

Summary:

As a young girl growing up in Houston, Texas, in the 1980s, Domino Perez spent her free time either devouring books or watching films--and thinking, always thinking, about the media she consumed. The meaningful connections between these media and how we learn form the basis of Perez's "slow" research approach to race, class, and gender in the borderlands. Part cultural history, part literary criticism, part memoir, Fatherhood in the Borderlands takes an incisive look at the value of creative inquiry while it examines the nuanced portrayal of Mexican American fathers in literature and film. Perez reveals a shifting tension in the literal and figurative borderlands of popular narratives and shows how form, genre, and subject work to determine the roles Mexican American fathers are allowed to occupy. She also calls our attention to the cultural landscape that has allowed such a racialized representation of Mexican American fathers to continue, unopposed, for so many years. Fatherhood in the Borderlands brings readers right to the intersection of the white cultural mainstream in the United States and Mexican American cultural productions, carefully considering the legibility and illegibility of Brown fathers in contemporary media.

Contents:

A slow approach to fathers and other fictions

Film Ancianos not Abuelos making space and mediating male power

Personal narrative "No, I am your father"

Literature fathers and racialized masculinities in Luis Alberto Urrea's In Search of Snow

Instrumentalizing indigeneity

Introduction

Personal narrative nobody ever said we were Aztecs

Film fatherhood, Chicanismo, and the cultural politics of healing in La Mission

Literature new tribalism and Chicana/o indigeneity in the work of Gloria Anzaldúa

Fantasmas and fronteras

Literature fathers, sons, and other (short) fictions

Film meta and mutant fathers

Personal narrative family fictions and other lies about the truth

Conclusion fathers and futurity

Parting shot.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed April 21, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Perez, Domino Renee. Fatherhood in the borderlands.

ISBN:

9781477326350

1477326359

9781477326367

1477326367

OCLC:

1347026673

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