Brown on brown
Subtitle: Chicano/a representations of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity
By: Frederick Luis Aldama.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: American literature -- Mexican American authors -- History and criticism.; Gays' writings, American -- History and criticism.; Homosexuality and literature -- United States.; Mexican American gays -- Intellectual life.; Mexican Americans -- Intellectual life.; Mexican Americans in literature.; Gender identity in literature.; Ethnicity in literature.; Sex role in literature.; Gays in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-168) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : narrative, sexuality, race, and the self; title: Querying postcolonial and borderland queer theory; title: John Rechy's bending of brown and white canons; title: Arturo Islas's and Richard Rodriguez's ethnosexual re-architexturing of metropolitan space; title: Ana Castillo's and Sheila Ortiz Taylor's bent Chicana textualities; title: Edward J. Olmos's postcolonial penalizings of the film-image repertoire; title: Conclusion : re-visioning Chicano/a bodies and texts.