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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 Qui¿onez 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/ Sue¿o de Colibri; The Smoking Mirror (1998); the editor of Invocation L.A.: Urban Multicultural Poetry. Her scholarly work appears in several anthologies and special issues of top refereed journals.
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword by María Herrera-Sobek
Introduction: Peligro! Subversive Subjects: Chicana and Chicano Cultural Studies in the 21st Century." Arturo J. Aldama and Naomi Quiñonez.
PART I: DANGEROUS BODIES
1. Arturo J. Aldama, "Borders, Violence and the Struggles for Chicana/o Subjectivity."
2. Laura Pérez, "Dresses and Body Decoration in Contemporary Chicana Art."
3. Ramón Garcia, "New Iconographies: Film Culture in Chicano Cultural Production."
4. Frederick Luis Aldama, "New Millennia Chicano/a Bodies in Edward J. Olmos' American Me."
5. Jonathan Xavier Inda, "Biopower, Reproduction, and the Migrant Woman's Body."
6. Norma Alarcón, "Anzaldúa's Frontera: Inscribing Gynetics."
PART II: DISMANTLING COLONIAL/ PATRIARCHAL LEGACIES
7. Naomi Quiñonez, "Hijas de La Malinche: Re-Writing Postcolonial Discourse Through the
Literature of First Wave Chicana Writers."
8. Patricia Penn Hilden, "How the Border Lies: Some Historical Reflections."
9. Amelia María de la Luz Montes, "How I am Received": Nationalism, Race and Gender in
Who Would Have Thought It?"
10. Cordelia Candelaria, "Engendering Re/Solutions: The (Feminist) Legacy of Estela Portillo Trambley (1926-1998)."
11. Anna Sandoval, "Unir Los Lazos: Toward a Comparative Study of Chicana and Mexicana
Literature."
12. Sarah Ramirez, "Borders, Feminism and Spirituality: Movements in Chicana Artistic Revisioning."
PART III: MAPPING SPACE AND RECLAIMING PLACE
13. Alejandra Elenes, "Border/Transformative Pedagogies at the End of the Millennium: Chicana/o Cultural Studies and Education."
14. José David Saldívar, "On the Bad Edge of La Frontera."
15. Pancho McFarland, "'Here is Something You Can't Understand': Chicano Rap and the Critique of Globalization."
16. Gaye T. M Johnson, "A Sifting of Centuries: Afro-Chicana/o Interaction and Popular Musical Culture."
17. Alberto Ledesma, "Chicana/o Undocumented Immigrant Narratives as Acts of Political and Intellectual Responsibility."
18. Delberto Dario Ruiz, "Teki Lenguas del Yollotzin (Cut Tongues From the Heart): Colonial Impositions, Hegemonic Borders and Shifting Spaces."
19. Rolando J. Romero. "The Alamo, Slavery and the Politics of Memory."
20. Vicki Ruiz, "Color Coding: Reflections at the Millennium."
Contributors
Index
About the author
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 Quiñonez 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/ Sueño de Colibri; The Smoking Mirror (1998); the editor of Invocation L.A.: Urban Multicultural Poetry. Her scholarly work appears in several anthologies and special issues of top refereed journals.
Summary
Offers a range of interdisciplinary essays that discuss racialised, subaltern, feminist and diasporic identities and the aesthetic politics of hybrid and mestiza cultural productions. This title brings together a body of theoretically rigorous interdisciplinary essays that articulate and expand the contours of Chicana and Chicano cultural studies.
