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Author Danielson, Marivel T.

Title Homecoming queers : desire and difference in Chicana Latina cultural production / Marivel T. Danielson
Published New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 219 pages)
Series Latinidad : transnational cultures in the United States
Latinidad.
Contents Queering home: desire meets theory meets art -- Speaking selves: language and identity in transition -- Moving violations: performing the limits of representation in Marga Gomez's Jaywalker -- The birdy and the bees: queer Chicana girlhood in Carla Trujillo's What night brings -- Complicating community: Terri De La Peña, Cristina Serna, Frances Negrón Muntaner, Ela Troyano, and Carmelita Tropicana -- The erotics of home: Monica Palacios, Marga Gomez, and Carmelita Tropicana -- Dancing with devils: gendered violence in novels by Emma Pérez and Achy Obejas -- Our art is our weapon: women of color transforming academia
Summary 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 ex
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-209) and index
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Subject American literature -- Hispanic American authors -- History and criticism
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Lesbians' writings, American -- History and criticism
Home in literature.
Hispanic Americans in the performing arts.
Hispanic American lesbians -- Intellectual life
Space in literature.
ART -- Reference.
ART -- Performance.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gay Studies.
Lesbianismo -- En la literatura
Literatura hispanoamericana -- Autoras -- Historia y crítica
American literature -- Hispanic American authors
American literature -- Women authors
Hispanic Americans in the performing arts
Home in literature
Lesbians' writings, American
Space in literature
Lesbe
Autorin
American Literature.
English.
Languages & Literatures.
Littérature américaine -- Auteurs d'origine latino-américaine -- Histoire et critique.
Littérature hispano-américaine -- Femmes écrivains -- Thèmes, motifs.
Écrits de lesbiennes américaines -- Thèmes, motifs.
Foyer -- Dans la littérature.
Américains d'origine latino-américaine -- Et les arts du spectacle.
Hispanos.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008048064
ISBN 9780813548371
0813548373