Title Reading Chican@ like a queer : the de-mastery of desire / Sandra K. Soto

Edition 1st ed Published Austin : University of Texas Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 171 pages) Series History, culture, and society series. Center for Mexican American studies (CMAS) CMAS history, culture, & society series. Contents Introduction: Chican@ literary and cultural studies, queer theory, and the challenge of racialized sexuality -- Making familia from racialized sexuality: Cherrié Moraga's memoirs, manifestos, and motherhood -- Fixing up the house of race with Richard Rodriguez -- Queering the conquest with Ana Castillo -- Amâerico Paredes and the de-mastery of desire -- Epilogue: Back to the futuro Summary <P>A race-based oppositional paradigm has informed Chicano studies since its emergence. In this work, Sandra K. Soto replaces that paradigm with a less didactic, more flexible framework geared for a queer analysis of the discursive relationship between racialization and sexuality. Through rereadings of a diverse range of widely discussed writers?from Am?rico Paredes to Cherr?e Moraga?Soto demonstrates that representations of racialization actually depend on the sexual and that a racialized sexuality is a heretofore unrecognized organizing principle of Chican@ literature, even in the most unlikely texts. Soto gives us a broader and deeper engagement with Chican@ representations of racialization, desire, and both inter- and intracultural social relations.</p><p>While several scholars have begun to take sexuality seriously by invoking the rich terrain of contemporary Chicana feminist literature for its portrayal of culturally specific and historically laden gender and sexual frameworks, as well as for its imaginative transgressions against them, this is the first study to theorize racialized sexuality as pervasive to and enabling of the canon of Chican@ literature. Exemplifying the broad usefulness of queer theory by extending its critical tools and anti-heteronormative insights to racialization, Soto stages a crucial intervention amid a certain loss of optimism that circulates both as a fear that queer theory was a fad whose time has passed, and that queer theory is incapable of offering an incisive, politically grounded analysis in and of the current historical moment.</p> Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject American literature -- Mexican American authors -- History and criticism Desire in literature. Sex in literature. Race in literature. Mexican Americans in literature. Mexican Americans -- Race identity Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- Hispanic American. American literature -- Mexican American authors Desire in literature Mexican Americans in literature Mexican Americans -- Race identity Race in literature Sex in literature Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780292792814 0292792816

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