Abject performances
Subtitle: aesthetic strategies in Latino cultural production
By: Leticia Alvarado
Contributors: Duke University Press
Series: Dissident acts; Dissident acts
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780822370635; 9780822370789
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Social aspects; Hispanic Americans and mass media; Hispanic American arts; Mass media and culture; Hispanic American mass media
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : sublime abjection; title: Other desires : Ana Mendieta's abject imaginings; title: Phantom assholes : Asco's affective vortex; title: Of Betties decorous and abject : Ugly Betty's America la fea and Nao Bustamante's America la bella; title: Arriving at apostasy : performative testimonies of ambivalent belonging; title: Conclusion : abject embodiment.