Post-Borderlandia - Chicana Literature and Gender Variant Critique

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Examines why gender variance is such a core theme in contemporary Chicana and Chicanx narratives. This book considers how Chicanx butch lesbians and Chicana butch lesbians and Chicanx trans people as not only challenging heteropatriarchal norms, but also departing from mainstream conceptions of queerness and gender identification. Zusammenfassung Post-Borderlandia examines why gender variance is such a core theme in contemporary Chicana and Chicanx narratives. Cuevas explores how a new generation of Chicanx writers, performers, and filmmakers are drawing on a rich tradition of challenging heteropatriarchal norms to offer new directions for Chicana feminist theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Gender Variance and the Post-Borderlands 1          Chicana Masculinities 2          Ambiguous Chicanx Bodies 3          Transing Chicanidad 4          Brokeback Rancho Conclusion: From a Long Line of Marimachas Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: T Jackie Cuevas, T. Jackie Cuevas
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.03.2018
• EAN: 9780813594538
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-9453-8
• No. of pages: 188
• Series: Latinidad: Transnational Cultu; Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies