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Homecoming Queers
Price: $23.95
Subtitle:
Desire and Difference
in Chicana Latina Cutural Production
Author:
Marivel T. Danielson
Subject: Women's
Studies, Latin
American Studies,
Media
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4572-1
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4571-4
Pages: 224 pages
Publication Date: August 2009
Series:
Latinidad:
Transnational Cultures in the United States
Praise for Homecoming Queers
"Homecoming Queers treats issues
central to the formation of queer Latina identity, subjectivity, and
representation. The book makes strong interventions in the
transdisciplinary locations that comprise Latina/o literary and
cultural studies and cultivates the furthering of our engagement in
making social change."—Tiffany Ana
Lopez, University of California, Riverside
"Offering a
whirlwind thematic tour of the most iconic contemporary Latina lesbian
performers today, Danielson organizes this critical voyage around the
central question of how latinidad and sexuality complicate the concept
of home. This book makes a valuable contribution to Latina/o and queer
studies and demonstrates the complexity of Latina representations of
belonging and homecoming. Recommended.
—Choice, Feb 2010
Description:
Homecoming Queers provides a
critical discussion of the multiple strategies used by queer Latina
authors and artists in the United States to challenge silence and
invisibility within mainstream media, literary canons, and theater
spaces. Marivel T. Danielson’s analysis reveals the extensive legacy of
these cultural artists, including novelists, filmmakers, students and
activists, comedians, performers, and playwrights. By clearly
discussing the complexities and universalities of ethnic, racial,
sexual, gender, and class intersections between queer Chicana and U.S.
Latinas, Danielson explores the multiple ways identity shapes and
shades creative expression. Weaknesses and gaps are revealed in the
treatment of difference as a whole, within dominant and marginalized
communities.
Spanning multiple genres and forms, and including scholarly theory
alongside
performances, films, narratives, and testimonials, Homecoming
Queers leads readers along a crucial path toward
understanding and overcoming the silences that previously existed
across these fields.
About the Author:
Marivel T. Danielson is an assistant
professor of literature and cultural studies in the department of
transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o studies at Arizona State University.
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