Performing Mexicanidad
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Performing Mexicanidad
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Author : Laura G. Gutiérrez
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-06-23
Performing Mexicanidad written by Laura G. Gutiérrez and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-23 with Social Science categories.
Using interdisciplinary performance studies and cultural studies frameworks, Laura G. Gutiérrez examines the cultural representation of queer sexuality in the contemporary cultural production of Mexican female and Chicana performance and visual artists. In particular, she locates the analytical lenses of feminist theory and queer theory in a central position to interrogate Mexican female dissident sexualities in transnational public culture. This is the first book-length study to wed performance studies and queer theory in examining the performative/performance work of important contemporary Mexicana and Chicana cultural workers. It proposes that the creations of several important artists—Chicana visual artist Alma López; the Mexican political cabareteras Astrid Hadad, Jesusa Rodríguez, Liliana Felipe, and Regina Orozco; the Chicana performance artist Nao Bustamante; and the Mexican video artist Ximena Cuevas—unsettle heterosexual national culture. In doing so, they are not only challenging heterosexist and nationalist discourses head-on, but are also participating in the construction of a queer world-making project. Treating the notion of dis-comfort as a productive category in these projects advances feminist and queer theories by offering an insightful critical movement suggesting that queer worlds are simultaneously spaces of desire, fear, and hope. Gutiérrez demonstrates how arenas formerly closed to female performers are now providing both an artistic outlet and a powerful political tool that crosses not only geographic borders but social, sexual, political, and class boundaries as well, and deconstructs the relationships among media, hierarchies of power, and the cultures of privilege.
The Mexican Diaspora On Constructing And Negotiating Mexicanidad In Mexico City
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Author : Armando Guerrero
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
The Mexican Diaspora On Constructing And Negotiating Mexicanidad In Mexico City written by Armando Guerrero and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
The ethnic identity of Mexicans in the diaspora is starkly at odds with the identity ascribed to them in Mexico. In Mexico, nationality plays a central role in construction of a mexicanidad, or a Mexican ethnic identity; while in the United States, mexicanidad is constructed and negotiated on a continuum of ethnic authenticity. In the current study, I first set out to describe the typology of a speech community of heritage speakers temporarily living in Mexico City by analyzing their social recognition of non-standard linguistic variables. I supplement the quantitative data with participant observations; these shed light on the relevant linguistic resources speakers use to navigate totalizing ascriptions of identity. I elicited data with a social recognition questionnaire, sociolinguistic interview and careful participant observations. The participant pool includes eighteen second generation Spanish heritage speakers who enrolled in an education abroad program at the Universidad Nacional Auti noma de Mi xico (UNAM) through the University of California. I categorized participants' evaluations of non-standard variables into three nested fields, as described in Santa Ana & Parodi (1998). The field notes of my observations were collected throughout six-month. The results demonstrate a unique typology among the select speech community, which contrasts the evaluative behavior of Mexican Spanish monolingual speakers. The observations illustrate the unique linguistic resources that become available to speakers for navigating the social landscape and to effectively perform mexicanidad through the variable use of linguistic style. Interestingly, among the stylistic resources are the non-standard variables characteristic of their variety of Spanish. The findings show that variables with a tendency to stereotype speakers are repurposed by heritage speakers, who value the variables in the stylistic practice of performing and reaffirming a Mexican ethnic identity, or mexicanidad.
Bottoms Up
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Author : Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gomez
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2024-08-13
Bottoms Up written by Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gomez and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Proposes a queer way to be in the world and with others Invoking queer aesthetics, ethics, and politics, Bottoms Up explores a sexual way to be with others while living with loss. Xiomara Cervantes-Gómez demonstrates how aesthetic representations of sex—namely, bottoming—function as allegorical paradigms, revealing the assemblages of violence that have constituted the social, cultural, and political shifts of Mexico and US Latinx culture from 1950 to the present. With playful, theoretically nuanced prose, Cervantes-Gómez builds upon queer of color theory and continental philosophy to present the “bottom” as a form of relational performance, which she terms “pasivo ethics.” The argument develops through a series of compelling case studies, including a series of novels by Octavio Paz and Luis Zapata that trace the position of the bottom in Mexican nationalist literature; the forms of exposure, risk, and proximity in the performance work of artist Lechedevirgen Trimegisto; a reading of violence and the erotic in the work of artist Bruno Ramri; and reading artists such as Yosimar Reyes, Yanina Orellana, and Carlos Martiel as they build a framework of sexual inheritance that carries the traumas of Mexicanness into the diaspora. Through a broad archive rooted in hemispheric Latinx performance, Bottoms Up considers how sexual and political power are bound up with each other in the shaping of Mexicanness. Placing particular emphasis on questions of queer and trans Mexican embodiment, the book explains how Mexicanness is constituted through discourses of exposure.
Decentering The Nation
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Author : Jesús A. Ramos-Kittrell
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2019-12-12
Decentering The Nation written by Jesús A. Ramos-Kittrell and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-12 with Music categories.
winner of the 2021 Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume Prize Decentering the Nation: Music, Mexicanidad, and Globalization considers how neoliberal capitalism has upset the symbolic economy of “Mexican” cultural discourse, and how this phenomenon touches on a broader crisis of representation affecting the nation-state in globalization. This book argues that, while mexicanidad emerged in the early twentieth century as a cultural trope about national origins, culture, and history, it was, nonetheless a trope steeped in ‘otherization’ and used by nation-states (Mexico and the United States) to legitimize narratives of cultural and socioeconomic development stemming out of nationalist political projects that are now under strain. Using music as a phenomenological platform of inquiry, contributors to this book focus on a critique of mexicanidad in terms of the cultural processes through which people contest ideas about race, gender, and sexuality; reframe ideas of memory, history, and belonging; and negotiate the experiences of dislocation that affect them. The volume urges readers to find points of resonance in its chapters, and thus, interrogate the asymmetrical ways in which power traverses their own historical experience. In light of the crisis in representation that currently affects the nation-state as a political unit in globalization, such resonance is critical to make culture an arena of social collusion, where alliances can restore the fiber of civil society and contest the pressures that have made disenfranchisement one of the most alarming features characterizing the complex relationships between the state and the neoliberal corporate system that seeks to regulate it. Scholars of history, international relations, cultural anthropology, Latin American studies, queer and gender studies, music, and cultural studies will find this book particularly useful.
Performing Queer Latinidad
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Author : Ramon H. Rivera-Servera
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2012-10-26
Performing Queer Latinidad written by Ramon H. Rivera-Servera and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-26 with Performing Arts categories.
The place of performance in unifying an urban LGBT population of diverse Latin American descent
The Little Old Lady Killer
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Author : Susana Vargas Cervantes
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2019-08-20
The Little Old Lady Killer written by Susana Vargas Cervantes and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-20 with Social Science categories.
The surprising true story of Mexico’s hunt, arrest, and conviction of its first female serial killer For three years, amid widespread public outrage, police in Mexico City struggled to uncover the identity of the killer responsible for the ghastly deaths of forty elderly women, many of whom had been strangled in their homes with a stethoscope by someone posing as a government nurse. When Juana Barraza Samperio, a female professional wrestler known as la Dama del Silencio (the Lady of Silence), was arrested—and eventually sentenced to 759 years in prison—for her crimes as the Mataviejitas (the little old lady killer), her case disrupted traditional narratives about gender, criminality, and victimhood in the popular and criminological imagination. Marshaling ten years of research, and one of the only interviews that Juana Barraza Samperio has given while in prison, Susana Vargas Cervantes deconstructs this uniquely provocative story. She focuses, in particular, on the complex, gendered aspects of the case, asking: Who is a killer? Barraza—with her “manly” features and strength, her career as a masked wrestler in lucha libre, and her violent crimes—is presented, here, as a study in gender deviance, a disruption of what scholars call mexicanidad, or the masculine notion of what it means to be Mexican. Cervantes also challenges our conception of victimhood—specifically, who “counts” as a victim. The Little Old Lady Killer presents a fascinating analysis of what serial killing—often considered “killing for the pleasure of killing”—represents to us.
Performing The Us Latina And Latino Borderlands
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Author : Arturo J. Aldama
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2012-10-09
Performing The Us Latina And Latino Borderlands written by Arturo J. Aldama and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-09 with Performing Arts categories.
In this interdisciplinary volume, contributors analyze the expression of Latina/o cultural identity through performance. With music, theater, dance, visual arts, body art, spoken word, performance activism, fashion, and street theater as points of entry, contributors discuss cultural practices and the fashoning of identity in Latino/a communities throughout the US. Examining the areas of crossover between Latin and American cultures gives new meaning to the notion of "borderlands." This volume features senior scholars and up-and-coming academics from cultural, visual, and performance studies, folklore, and ethnomusicology.
Global Mexican Cultural Productions
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Author : R. Blanco-Cano
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-11-30
Global Mexican Cultural Productions written by R. Blanco-Cano and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-30 with Social Science categories.
In this book, the authors propose a multilayered reading of contemporary transnational cultural manifestations in which it is possible to recognize challenges and cultural strategies that transnational Mexican communities conceive in order to claim cultural, political and social agency.
Embodying Difference
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Author : Linda Saborío
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2011-12-23
Embodying Difference written by Linda Saborío and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-23 with Performing Arts categories.
Embodying Difference: Scripting Social Images of the Female Body in Latina Theatre explores contemporary theatrical productions by Latina dramatists in the United States and focuses on the effects that neoliberal politics, global market strategies, gender formation, and racial and ethnic marginalization have had on Latinas. Through the analysis of select plays by dramatists Nao Bustamante, Coco Fusco, Anne García-Romero, Josefina López, Cherríe Moraga, Linda Nieves-Powell, Dolores Prida, and Milcha Sánchez-Scott, Embodying Difference shows how the bodies of Latinas are represented on stage in order to create an image of Latina consolidation. The performances of a dynamic female body challenge assumptions about ethno-racial expressions, exoticized “otherness,” and political correctness as this book explores often uneasy sites of representations of the body including phenotype, sexuality, obesity, and the body as a political marker. Drawing on the theoretical framework of difference, including differing gender voices, performances, and performative acts, Embodying Difference examines social images of the Latina body as a means of understanding and rearticulating Latina subjectivity through an expression of difference. By means of a gradual realization and self-acclamation of their own images, Latinas can learn to embody notions of self that endorse their curvaceous, sexualized, and oversized bodies that have historically been marked and marketed by their “brownness.”
The Routledge Companion To Latino A Literature
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Author : Suzanne Bost
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-10-02
The Routledge Companion To Latino A Literature written by Suzanne Bost and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Latino/a literature is one of the fastest developing fields in the discipline of literary studies. It represents an identity that is characterized by fluidity and diversity, often explored through divisions formed by language, race, gender, sexuality, and immigration. The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature presents over forty essays by leading and emerging international scholars of Latino/a literature and analyses: Regional, cultural and sexual identities in Latino/a literature Worldviews and traditions of Latino/a cultural creation Latino/a literature in different international contexts The impact of differing literary forms of Latino/a literature The politics of canon formation in Latino/a literature. This collection provides a map of the critical issues central to the discipline, as well as uncovering new perspectives and new directions for the development of the field. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the past, present and future of this literary culture.