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Post-Borderlandia : Chicana Literature and Gender Variant Critique / T. Jackie Cuevas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cuevas, T. Jackqueline, Author.
- Series:
- Latinidad.
- Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gender identity in literature.
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--Mexican American authors--History and criticism.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (188 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Bringing Chicana/o studies into conversation with queer theory and transgender studies, Post-Borderlandia examines why gender variance is such a core theme in contemporary Chicana and Chicanx narratives. It considers how Chicana butch lesbians and Chicanx trans people are not only challenging heteropatriarchal norms, but also departing from mainstream conceptions of queerness and gender identification. Expanding on Gloria Anzaldúa's classic formulation of the Chicana as transformer of the "borderlands," Jackie Cuevas explores how a new generation of Chicanx writers, performers, and filmmakers are imagining a "post-borderlands" subjectivity, where shifting national, racial, class, sexual, and gender identifications produce complex power dynamics. In addition, Cuevas offers fresh archival analysis of the Chicana feminist canon to reveal how queer gender variance has always been crucial to this literary tradition.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Gender Variance and the Post-Borderlands
- 1. Chicana Masculinities
- 2. Ambiguous Chicanx Bodies
- 3. Transing Chicanidad
- 4. Brokeback Rancho
- Conclusion: From a Long Line of Marimachas
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-164) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9780813594545
- 0813594545
- 9780813594569
- 0813594561
- OCLC:
- 1027476921
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