Overview

In this interdisciplinary volume, contributors analyze the expression of Latina/o cultural identity through performance. With music, theater, dance, visual arts, body art, spoken word,performance activism, fashion, and street theater as points of entry, contributors discuss cultural practices and the fashioning of identity in Latino/a communities throughout the US.

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Author:   Arturo J. Aldama ,  Chela Sandoval ,  Peter J. García ,  Micaela Díaz-Sánchez
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.703kg
ISBN:  

9780253005748

ISBN 10:   0253005744
Pages:   522
Publication Date:   09 October 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword \ Alicia Gaspar de Alba Introduction: Toward a De-Colonial Performatics of the US Latina and Latino Borderlands \ Chela Sandoval, Arturo J. Aldama, and Peter J. Garcia ACTO 1. Performing Emancipation: Inner Work, Public Acts 1. Body as Codex-ized Word / Cuerpo Como Palabra (en-)Codice-ado: Chicana/Indigena and Mexican Transnational Performative Indigeneities \ Micaela Diaz-Sanchez 2. Milongueando Macha Homoerotics: Dancing the Tango, Torta Style (a Performative Testimonio) \ Maria Lugones 3. The Other Train That Derails Us: Performing Latina Anxiety Disorder in The Night before Christmas \ Angie Chabram-Dernersesian 4. The Art of Place: The Work of Diane Gamboa \ Karen Mary Davalos 5. Human Rights, Conditioned Choices, and Performance in Ana Castillo's Mixquihuala Letters \ Carl Gutierrez-Jones 6. Decolonizing Gender Performativity: A Thesis for Emancipation in Early Chicana Feminist Thought (1969-1979) \ Daphne V. Taylor-Garcia ACTO 2. Ethnographies of Performance: The Rio Grande and Beyond 7. Performing Indigeneity in a South Texas Community: Los Matachines de la Santa Cruz \ Norma E. Cantu 8. Re-Membering Chelo Silva: The Bolero in Chicana Perspective (Women's Bodies and Voices in Postrevolutionary Urbanization: The Bohemian, Urban, and Transnational) \ Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez 9. Roland Barthes, Mojado, in Brownface: Chisme-laced Snapshots Documenting the Preposterous and Fact-laced Claim That the Postmodern Was Born along the Borders of the Rio Grande River \ William Anthony Nericcio 10. Decolonial Border Queers: Case Studies of Chicana/o Lesbians, Gay Men, and Transgender Folks in El Paso / Juarez \ Emma Perez 11 Te Amo, Te Amo, Te Amo : Lorenzo Antonio and Sparx Performing Nuevo Mexico Music \ Peter J. Garcia 12. Sonic Geographies and Anti-Border Musics: We Didn't Cross the Border, the Borders Crossed Us \ Roberto D. Hernandez 13. Lila Downs's Borderless Performance: Transculturation and Musical Communication \ Brenda M. Romero ACTO 3. Nepantla Aesthetics in the Trans/Nacional 14. El Macho: How the Women of Teatro Luna Became Men \ Paloma Martinez-Cruz and Liza Ann Acosta 15. Suturing Las Ramblas to East LA: Transnational Performances of Josefina Lopez's Real Women Have Curves \ Tiffany Ana Lopez 16. Loving Revolution: Same-Sex Marriage and Queer Resistance in Monica Palacios's Amor y Revolucion \ Marivel T. Danielson 17. Is Ugly Betty a Real Woman? Representations of Chicana Femininity Inscribed as a Site of (Transformative) Difference \ Jennifer Esposito 18. Indian Icon, Gay Macho: Felipe Rose of Village People \ Gabriel S. Estrada ACTO 4. (De)Criminalizing Bodies: Ironies of Performance 19. No Somos Criminales: Crossing Borders in Contemporary Latina and Latino Music \ Arturo J. Aldama 20. Pelones y Matones : Chicano Cholos Perform for a Punitive Audience \ Victor M. Rios and Patrick Lopez-Aguado 21. Mexica Hip Hop: Male Expressive Culture \ Pancho McFarland 22. The Latino Comedy Project and Border Humor in Performance \ Jennifer Alvarez Dickinson 23. (Re)Examining the Latin Lover: Screening Chicano/Latino Sexualities \ Daniel Enrique Perez 24. Rumba's Democratic Circle in the Age of Legal Simulacra \ Berta Jottar-Palenzuela List of Contributors Index

Reviews

This collection brings together a wealth of Latino Studies scholars in a dynamic interdisciplinary dialogue around issues of performance, identity, and de-colonization. The valuable conversations that emerge from their essays extend into many scholarly disciplines, including Latin American Studies, Queer and Gender Studies, and African American Studies. Emily Maguire, author of Experiments in Cuban Literature and Ethnography

<p>The essays in Performing the US Latina & Latino Borderlands expand the field of Latina/o cultural studies while situating innovative discussions of performance in the context of borderlands studies. In its totality, the collection focuses on specific formations of collective identities-in-resistance, or what the editors call, the performance of a borderland consciousness. Performing the US Latina & Latino Borderlands is suitable for graduate and upper undergraduate courses in Latina/o American studies, ethnic and cultural studies, and performance studies.--Alicia Arrizon author of Queering Mestizaje: Transculturation and Performance

The essays in Performing the US Latina & Latino Borderlands expand the field of Latina/o cultural studies while situating innovative discussions of performance in the context of borderlands studies. In its totality, the collection focuses on specific formations of collective identities-in-resistance, or what the editors call, the performance of a borderland consciousness. Performing the US Latina & Latino Borderlands is suitable for graduate and upper undergraduate courses in Latina/o American studies, ethnic and cultural studies, and performance studies.--Alicia Arrizon author of Queering Mestizaje: Transculturation and Performance

<p> The essays in Performing the US Latina & Latino Borderlands expand the field of Latina/o cultural studies while situating innovative discussions of performance in the context of borderlands studies. In its totality, the collection focuses on specific formations of collective identities-in-resistance, or what the editors call, the performance of a borderland consciousness. Performing the US Latina & Latino Borderlands is suitable for graduate and upper undergraduate courses in Latina/o American studies, ethnic and cultural studies, and performance studies. --Alicia Arrizon, author of Queering Mestizaje: Transculturation and Performance--Alicia Arrizon author of Queering Mestizaje: Transculturation and Performance

Performing the US Latina and Latino Borderlands is a vital addition to the growing body of scholarship focused on the ''performatics'' of border-crossers, bordernatives, and border-inhabitants as necessary sources of knowledge. * Latino Studies * I would recommend this book for scholars interested in learning about diverse ways that marginalized populations seize the tools of performance and alter them to shift the story. . . Each chapter contains enough cultural context for scholars unfamiliar with Latina/o Studies and enough entertaining performance for everyone. * Text and Presentation *

Author Information

Arturo J. Aldama is Associate Professor of Latino and Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder. Chela Sandoval is former Chair and Associate Professor of Critical Theory in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara. Peter J. García is Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Musics at California State University, Northridge.

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