Brown on Brown Chicano/a Representations of Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity

Name: Brown on Brown Chicano/a Representations of Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity
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ISBN: 9780292709409

ISBN-10: 0292709404

ISBN-13: 9780292709409

Edition: 2005

Authors: Frederick Luis Aldama

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Common conceptions permeating U.S. ethnic queer theory tend to confuse aesthetics with real-world acts and politics. Often Chicano/a representations of gay and lesbian experiences in literature and film are analyzed simply as propaganda. The cognitive, emotional, and narrational ingredients (that is, the subject matter and the formal traits) of those representations are frequently reduced to a priori agendas that emphasize a politics of difference. In this book, Frederick Luis Aldama follows an entirely different approach. He investigates the ways in which race and gay/lesbian sexuality intersect and operate in Chicano/a literature and film while taking into full account their imaginative…

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List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 9/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 186
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Narrative, Sexuality, Race, and the Self



Querying Postcolonial and Borderland Queer Theory



Bending of Brown and White Canons




Ethnosexual Re-architexturing of Metropolitan Space




Bent Chicana Textualities




Postcolonial Penalizings of the Film-Image Repertoire



Conclusion: Re-visioning Chicano/a Bodies and Texts


Notes


Works Cited