Performing Mexicanidad - Vendidas Y Cabareteras on the Transnational Stage

Informationen zum Autor By Laura G. Gutiérrez Klappentext An examination of the intersection of public discourses on sexualities with recent political, economic, and social shifts in the national context of Mexico and the Mexican diaspora in the United States. Zusammenfassung An examination of the intersection of public discourses on sexualities with recent political, economic, and social shifts in the national context of Mexico and the Mexican diaspora in the United States. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Unsettling Comforts: Notes on Language, Politics, and Sex/Sexuality in a Transnational ContextPart One. Reimagining the Archives of Femininity and SexualityChapter 1. Sexing Guadalupe in Transnational Double CrossingsChapter 2. Gender Parody, Political Satire, and Postmodern Rancheras: Astrid Hadad's "Heavy Nopal" AestheticsChapter 3. Fue en un cabaret: Nation, Melodrama, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Mexican PerformancePart Two. Chicana and Mexicana Queer Performative InterventionsChapter 4. Nao Bustamante's "Bad-Girl" AestheticsChapter 5. Ximena Cuevas's Critical CollagesCoda. Transtortilleras: Political Cabaret in the Twenty-first CenturyNotesWorks CitedIndex

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• Authors: Laura G. Gutierrez, Laura G. Gutiérrez
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2010
• EAN: 9780292722880
• ISBN: 978-0-292-72288-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Chicana Matters; Chicana Matters
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories