Performing Mexicanidad
Subtitle: vendidas y cabareteras on the transnational stage
By: Laura G. Gutiérrez.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Chicana matters series
Publisher: University of Texas
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780292722088; 9780292722880
Subjects: Sex in the performing arts -- Mexico; Lesbians in the performing arts -- Mexico; Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) -- Social aspects -- Mexico; Women entertainers -- Mexico; Women performance artists -- Mexico
Notes: Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Wisconsin, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Unsettling comforts : notes on language, politics, and sex/sexuality in a transnational context; title: Reimagining the archives of femininity and sexuality; title: Sexing Guadalupe in transnational double crossings; title: Gender parody, political satire, and postmodern rancheras : Astrid Hadad's "heavy nopal" aesthetics; title: Fue en un cabaret : nation, melodrama, gender, and sexuality in contemporary Mexican performance; title: Chicana and Mexicana queer performative interventions. Nao Bustamante's "bad-girl" aesthetics; title: Ximena Cuevas's critical collages coda; title: Transtortilleras : political cabaret in the twenty-first century.