Performing the US Latina and Latino borderlands
By: edited by Arturo J. Aldama, Chela Sandoval, and Peter J. García
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9780253002952; 9780253005748
Subjects: Hispanic Americans in the performing arts; Hispanic Americans; Ethnic identity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: toward a de-colonial performatics of the US Latina and Latino borderlands / Chela Sandoval, Arturo J. Aldama, and Peter J. García; title: 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; title: Milongueando macha homoerotics: dancing the tango, torta style (a performative testimonio) / Maria Lugones; title: The other train that derails us: performing Latina anxiety disorder in "The night before Christmas" / Angie Chabram-Dernersesian; title: The art of place: the work of Diane Gamboa / Karen Mary Davalos; title: Human rights, conditioned choices, and performance in Ana Castillo's Mixquihuala letters / Carl Gutiérrez-Jones; title: Decolonizing gender performativity: a thesis for emancipation in early Chicana feminist thought (1969-1979) / Daphne V. Taylor-García; title: Ethnographies of performance: the Río Grande and beyond. Performing indigeneity in a South Texas community: los matachines de La Santa Cruz / Norma E. Cantú; title: 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; title: 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; title: Decolonial border queers: case studies of chicana/o lesbians, gay men, and transgender folks in El Paso/Juárez / Emma Pérez; title: "Te amo, te amo, te amo": Lorenzo Antonio and Sparx performing Nuevo México music / Peter J. García; title: Sonic geographies and anti-border musics: "we didn't cross the border, the borders crossed us" / Roberto D. Hernández; title: Lila Downs's borderless performance: transculturation and musical communication / Brenda M. Romero; title: Nepantla aesthetics in the trans/nacional el macho: how the women of Teatro Luna became men / Paloma Martínez-Cruz and Liza Ann Acosta; title: Suturing las ramblas to East LA: transnational performances of Josefina López's Real women have curves / Tiffany Ana López; title: Loving revolution: same-sex marriage and queer resistance in Monica palacios's Amor y revolución / Marivel T. Danielson; title: Is Ugly Betty a real woman? representations of Chicana femininity inscribed as a site of (transformative) difference / Jennifer Esposito; title: Indian icon, gay macho: Felipe Rose of Village people / Gabriel S. Estrada; title: (De)criminalizing bodies: ironies of performance. No somos criminales: crossing borders in contemporary Latina and Latino music / Arturo J. Aldama; title: "Pelones y matones": chicano cholos perform for a punitive audience / Victor M. Rios and Patrick Lopez-Aguado; title: Mexican hip hop: male expressive culture / Pancho McFarland; title: The Latino comedy project and border humor in performance / Jennifer Alvarez Dickinson; title: (Re)examining the Latin lover: screening chicano/latino sexualities / Daniel Enrique Pérez; title: Rumba's democratic circle in the age of legal simulacra / Berta Jottar-Palenzuela.