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Author Gutierrez, Laura G., 1968-

Title Performing Mexicanidad : vendidas y cabareteras on the transnational stage / Laura G. GutiƩrrez
Edition 1st ed
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Series Chicana matters series
Chicana matters series.
Contents Introduction. Unsettling comforts : notes on language, politics, and sex/sexuality in a transnational context -- Reimagining the archives of femininity and sexuality. Sexing Guadalupe in transnational double crossings -- Gender parody, political satire, and postmodern rancheras : Astrid Hadad's "heavy nopal" aesthetics -- Fue en un cabaret : nation, melodrama, gender, and sexuality in contemporary Mexican performance -- Chicana and Mexicana queer performative interventions. Nao Bustamante's "bad-girl" aesthetics -- Ximena Cuevas's critical collages -- Transtortilleras : political cabaret in the twenty-first century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Sex in the performing arts -- Mexico
Lesbians in the performing arts -- Mexico
Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) -- Social aspects -- Mexico
Women entertainers -- Mexico
Women performance artists -- Mexico
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Hispanic American Studies.
Lesbians in the performing arts
Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) -- Social aspects
Sex in the performing arts
Women entertainers
Women performance artists
Mexico
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780292793002
0292793006