Selenidad Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory

Name: Selenidad Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory
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ISBN: 9780822345022

ISBN-10: 0822345021

ISBN-13: 9780822345022

Edition: 2009

Authors: Deborah Paredez, Deborah Paredez

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An outpouring of memorial tributes and public expressions of grief followed the 1995 death of the Tejana recording artist Selena Quintanilla Prez. The Latina superstar was remembered and mourned in documentaries, magazines, Web sites, monuments, biographies, murals, look-alike contests, musicals, drag shows, and more. Calling these and other acts of mourning the slain star Selenidad, Deborah Paredez explores their significance and the broader meanings of remembering Selena. She considers the performers career and emergence as a posthumous icon within political and cultural transformations in the United States during the 1990s, the decade that witnessed a Latin explosion in culture and…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 8/12/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 0.24" wide x 0.35" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

After completing her Ph.D. at Northwestern University, she taught in the drama department at Vassar College. She recently became an associate professor in the Department of Drama and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin.



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Selenidad and Latinidad in the 1990s



Soundtracks of Selenidad: "Disco Medley" and "Como la Flor"



Colonial Past, Tejano Present: Civic Maintenance is Selena's Memorial



Selena Forever, Latin Futures



Becoming Selena, Becoming Latina



"Como la Flor" Reprised: Queer Selenidad


Epilogue


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index