Imagining Latinx Intimacies - Connecting Queer Stories, Spaces and Sexualities

Imagining Latinx Intimacies addresses the ways that artists and writers resist the social forces of colonialism, displacement, and oppression through crafting incisive and inspiring responses to the problems that queer Latinx peoples encounter in both daily lives and representation such as art, film, poetry, popular culture, and stories.

List of contents

Part I: Close to Home: Rescripting Domestic Spaces / Introduction: Stories of Queer Latinx Intimacies and Spatial Experiences / Chapter 1 - Reimagining the Family Home: The Queering of Domesticity in Puerto Rican Storytelling / Chapter 2 - Enhancing Schools: Creating Social Alliances and Queer Spaces in the Young Adult Fiction of González and Sánchez / Part II: Far from Home: Alternative and Imaginary Spaces / Chapter 3 - Connecting and Performing Online: Interactive Experiences in Two Multimedia Texts by Queer Puerto Rican Artists / Chapter 4 - Mapping Poetic Spaces: Subversive Intimacies of Humans and Nonhumans in the Scenes of Anzaldúa and Arroyo / Chapter 5 - Navigating Spectacular Spaces: Regarding Bodies and Chilean American Lives in Reyes's Madre and I: A Memoir of Our Immigrant Lives / Afterword - Looking to the Future: Remembering Spatial Creativity and Confronting Violence Across Queer Contexts / Appendix - Three Brief Resource Lists for Latinx and LGBTQ+ Communities

About the author

Edward A. Chamberlain is Assistant Professor in Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington Tacoma, USA

Summary

Imagining Latinx Intimacies addresses the ways that artists and writers resist the social forces of colonialism, displacement, and oppression through crafting incisive and inspiring responses to the problems that queer Latinx peoples encounter in both daily lives and representation such as art, film, poetry, popular culture, and stories.

Product details

• Authors: Edward A. Chamberlain
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9781538148242
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-4824-2
• No. of pages: 220
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Feminism & feminist theory, Gay & Lesbian studies, Of specific Gay interest, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies, Relating to gay people, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, Relating to Latin / Hispanic American people, Gay & Lesbian studies / LGBTQ studies, Hispanic & Latino Studies, Gender studies: transgender, transsexual, intersex people, Gender studies: transgender & intersex