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Laura E. Pérez is Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Chicana Art: The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities, also published by Duke University Press.
List of contents
List of Illustrations xi
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xxi
1. The Social Body of Love: Crafting Decolonial Methodologies 1
2. Eros Ideologies and Methodology of the Oppressed 17
3. Long Nguyen: Flesh of the Inscrutable 24
4. Hidden Avant-Gardes: Contemporary U.S. Latina/o Art 27
5. Freedom and Gender in Ester Hernández's Libertad 34
6. 'Ginas in the Atelier 40
7. The Poetry of Embodiment: Series and Variation in Linda Arreola's Vaguely Chicana 52
8. Art and Museums 56
9. The@-Erotics in Alex Donis's My Cathedral 70
10. Con o sin permiso (With or without Permission): Chicana Badgirls: Las hociconas 77
11. Maestrapeace: Picturing the Power of Women's Histories of Creativity 82
12. Decolonizing Self-Portraits of Frida Kahlo, Ana Mendieta, and Yreina D. Cervántez 91
13. Undead Darwinism and the Fault Lines of Neocolonialism in Latina/o Art Worlds 112
14. The Inviolate Erotic in the Paintings of Liliana Wilson 126
15. The Performance of Spirituality and Visionary Politics in the Work of Gloria Anzaldúa 133
16. Daughters Shaking Earth 147
17 Fashioning Decolonial Optics: Days of the Dead Walking Altars and Calavera Fashion Shows in Latina/o Los Angeles 155
18. On Jean Pierre Larochette and Yael Lurie's Water Songs 174
19. Prayers for the Planet: Reweaving the Natural and the Social: Consuelo Jimenez Underwood's Welcome to Flower-Landai 179
20. "Undocu Nation," Creativity, Integrity 192
21. Writing with Crooked Lines 201
Notes 211
References 245
Index 263
About the author
Laura E. Pérez is Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Chicana Art: The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities, also published by Duke University Press.
