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Honorable Mention, 2018 Gloria E. Anzaldua Book Prize from the National Women's Studies Association 2019 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist? Bringing Chicana/o studies into conversation with queer theory and transgender studies, Post-Borderlandia examines why gender variance is such a core theme in contemporary Chicana and Chicanx narratives. It considers how Chicana butch lesbians and Chicanx trans people are not only challenging heteropatriarchal norms, but also departing from mainstream conceptions of queerness and gender identification. Expanding on Gloria Anzaldua's classic formulation of the Chicana as transformer of the ""borderlands,"" Jackie Cuevas explores how a new generation of Chicanx writers, performers, and filmmakers are imagining a ""post-borderlands"" subjectivity, where shifting national, racial, class, sexual, and gender identifications produce complex power dynamics. In addition, Cuevas offers fresh archival analysis of the Chicana feminist canon to reveal how queer gender variance has always been crucial to this literary tradition.

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Cuevas' invigorating appraisal and persuasive readings of under-examined yet pivotal texts and writers, refreshing refusal to adhere to the sex/gender binary, and stunning ability to link history with critical theory breathes new life into Chicano/a literary and queer studies. --Richard T. Rodriguez author of Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics Cuevas's invigorating appraisal and persuasive readings of under-examined yet pivotal texts and writers, refreshing refusal to adhere to the sex/gender binary, and stunning ability to link history with critical theory breathes new life into Chicano/a literary and queer studies. --Richard T. Rodriguez author of Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics Building on and moving beyond the work of Gloria Anzaldua, Post-Borderlandia interrogates the queer Chicana literary archive through the lens of gender variant critique. Arguing that gender non-conformity shapes understandings of queerness in Chicanx literary texts, this original and provocative book theorizes a movement beyond the binaries of white lesbianism and heteronormative Chicanidad, examining the normative projects of borderlands theory and queer of color critique to claim post-borderlandia as a site where gender variance opens up new potentialities for Chicanx subjectivity. A beautifully written, challenging, and ground-breaking text. --Chandra Talpade Mohanty author of Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity

Cuevas's invigorating appraisal and persuasive readings of under-examined yet pivotal texts and writers, refreshing refusal to adhere to the sex/gender binary, and stunning ability to link history with critical theory breathes new life into Chicano/a literary and queer studies. --Richard T. Rodriguez author of Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics New Scholarly Books: Weekly Book List, May 25, 2018 by Nina C. Ayoub--Chronicle of Higher Education Spring Arts 2018 Books: Fact, fiction and beyond by Will Owen--Washington Blade Building on and moving beyond the work of Gloria Anzaldua, Post-Borderlandia interrogates the queer Chicana literary archive through the lens of gender variant critique. Arguing that gender non-conformity shapes understandings of queerness in Chicanx literary texts, this original and provocative book theorizes a movement beyond the binaries of white lesbianism and heteronormative Chicanidad, examining the normative projects of borderlands theory and queer of color critique to claim post-borderlandia as a site where gender variance opens up new potentialities for Chicanx subjectivity. A beautifully written, challenging, and ground-breaking text. --Chandra Talpade Mohanty author of Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity

New Scholarly Books: Weekly Book List, May 25, 2018 by Nina C. Ayoub

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T. JACKIE CUEVAS is an associate professor in the department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. Cuevas is the coeditor of El Mundo Zurdo 4: Selected Works from the Meetings of The Society for the Study of Gloria AnzaldÚa, and she has published in journals such as Latino Studies.

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