Decolonial Voices Chicana and Chicano Cultural Studies in the 21st Century

Name: Decolonial Voices Chicana and Chicano Cultural Studies in the 21st Century
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ISBN: 9780253108814

ISBN-10: 0253108810

ISBN-13: 9780253108814

Edition: 2002

Authors: Arturo J. Aldama, Naomi Quiï¿½onez

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The interdisciplinary essays in Decolonial Voices discuss racialized, subaltern, feminist, and diasporic identities and the aesthetic politics of hybrid and mestiza/o cultural productions. This collection represents several key directions in the field: First, it charts how subaltern cultural productions of the US/ Mexico borderlands speak to the intersections of "local," "hemispheric," and "globalized" power relations of the border imaginary. Second, it recovers the Mexican women's and Chicana literary and cultural heritages that have been ignored by Euro-American canons and patriarchal exclusionary practices. It also expands the field in postnationalist directions by creating an…

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List price: $9.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 4/4/2002
Binding: E-Book
Pages: 432
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long
Language: English

Arturo J. Aldama is Associate Professor in the Department of Chicana/o Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of Disrupting Savagism:Intersecting Chicana/o, Mexicana/o and Native American Struggles for Representation and several articles on Chicana/o and Native American cultural, literary and filmic studies. He is also Director elect for the Chicana and Chicano literary studies executive committee of the Modern Language Association.Naomi Quiï¿½onez is Assistant Professor in the Department of Chicana/o Studies at Cal State Fullerton. She is a widely anthologized poet and the author of Hummingbird Dreams/ Sueï¿½o de Colibri; The Smoking Mirror (1998); the editor of Invocation…



Foreword


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Peligro! Subversive Subjects: Chicana and Chicano Cultural Studies in the 21st Century


Dangerous Bodies


Millennial Anxieties: Borders, Violence, and the Struggle for Chicana and Chicano Subjectivity


Writing on the Social Body: Dresses and Body Ornamentation in Contemporary Chicana Art


New Iconographies: Film Culture in Chicano Cultural Production


Penalizing Chicano/a Bodies in Edward J. Olmos's American Me


Biopower, Reproduction, and the Migrant Woman's Body


Anzaldua's Frontera: Inscribing Gynetics


Dismantling Colonial/Patriarchal Legacies


Re(Riting) the Chicana Postcolonial: From Traitor to 21st Century Interpreter


How the Border Lies: Some Historical Reflections


"See How I Am Received": Nationalism, Race, and Gender in Who Would Have Thought It!


Engendering Re/Solutions: The (Feminist) Legacy of Estela Portillo Trambley


Unir los Lazos: Braiding Chicana and Mexicana Subjectivities


Borders, Feminism, and Spirituality: Movements in Chicana Aesthetic Revisioning


Mapping Space and Reclaiming Place


Border/Transformative Pedagogies at the End of the Millennium: Chicana/o Cultural Studies and Education


On the Bad Edge of La Frontera


"Here Is Something You Can't Understand ...": Chicano Rap and the Critique of Globalization


A Sifting of Centuries: Afro-Chicano Interaction and Popular Musical Culture in California, 1960-2000


Narratives of Undocumented Mexican Immigration as Chicana/o Acts of Intellectual and Political Responsibility


Teki Lenguas del Yollotzin (Cut Tongues from the Heart): Colonialism, Borders, and the Politics of Space


The Alamo, Slavery, and the Politics of Memory


Color Coded: Reflections at the Millennium


Contributors


Index