Foreword Alicia Gaspar de Alba
Introduction: Toward a De-Colonial Performatics of the US Latina and Latino Borderlands Chela Sandoval, Arturo J. Aldama, and Peter J. García
ACTO 1. Performing Emancipation: Inner Work, Public Acts
1. Body as Codex-ized Word / Cuerpo Como Palabra (en-)Códice-ado:
Chicana/Indígena and Mexican Transnational Performative
Indigeneities Micaela Díaz-Sánchez
2. Milongueando Macha Homoerotics: Dancing the Tango, Torta Style
(a Performative Testimonio) Maria Lugones
3. The Other Train That Derails Us: Performing Latina Anxiety
Disorder in "The Night before Christmas" Angie
Chabram-Dernersesian
4. The Art of Place: The Work of Diane Gamboa Karen Mary
Davalos
5. Human Rights, Conditioned Choices, and Performance in Ana
Castillo's Mixquihuala Letters Carl Gutiérrez-Jones
6. Decolonizing Gender Performativity: A Thesis for Emancipation in
Early Chicana Feminist Thought (1969–1979) Daphne V.
Taylor-García
ACTO 2. Ethnographies of Performance: The Río Grande and
Beyond
7. Performing Indigeneity in a South Texas Community: Los
Matachines de la Santa Cruz Norma E. Cantú
8. Re-Membering Chelo Silva: The Bolero in Chicana Perspective
(Women's Bodies and Voices in Postrevolutionary Urbanization: The
Bohemian, Urban, and Transnational) Yolanda Broyles-González
9. Roland Barthes, Mojado, in Brownface: Chisme-laced Snapshots
Documenting the Preposterous and Fact-laced Claim That the
Postmodern Was Born along the Borders of the Río Grande River
William Anthony Nericcio
10. Decolonial Border Queers: Case Studies of Chicana/o Lesbians,
Gay Men, and Transgender Folks in El Paso / Juárez Emma Pérez
11 "Te Amo, Te Amo, Te Amo": Lorenzo Antonio and Sparx Performing
Nuevo México Music Peter J. García
12. Sonic Geographies and Anti-Border Musics: "We Didn't Cross the
Border, the Borders Crossed Us" Roberto D. Hernández
13. Lila Downs's Borderless Performance: Transculturation and
Musical Communication Brenda M. Romero
ACTO 3. Nepantla Aesthetics in the Trans/Nacional
14. El Macho: How the Women of Teatro Luna Became Men Paloma
Martínez-Cruz and Liza Ann Acosta
15. Suturing Las Ramblas to East LA: Transnational Performances of
Josefina López's Real Women Have Curves Tiffany Ana López
16. Loving Revolution: Same-Sex Marriage and Queer Resistance in
Monica Palacios's Amor y Revolución Marivel T. Danielson
17. Is Ugly Betty a Real Woman? Representations of Chicana
Femininity Inscribed as a Site of (Transformative) Difference
Jennifer Esposito
18. Indian Icon, Gay Macho: Felipe Rose of Village People Gabriel
S. Estrada
ACTO 4. (De)Criminalizing Bodies: Ironies of Performance
19. No Somos Criminales: Crossing Borders in Contemporary Latina
and Latino Music Arturo J. Aldama
20. "Pelones y Matones": Chicano Cholos Perform for a Punitive
Audience Victor M. Rios and Patrick Lopez-Aguado
21. Mexica Hip Hop: Male Expressive Culture Pancho McFarland
22. The Latino Comedy Project and Border Humor in Performance
Jennifer Alvarez Dickinson
23. (Re)Examining the Latin Lover: Screening Chicano/Latino
Sexualities Daniel Enrique Pérez
24. Rumba's Democratic Circle in the Age of Legal Simulacra Berta
Jottar-Palenzuela
List of Contributors
Index
Culture as performance in Latina/o communities in the US
Arturo J. Aldama is Associate Professor of Latino and Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder.
Chela Sandoval is former Chair and Associate Professor of Critical Theory in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara.
Peter J. García is Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Musics at California State University, Northridge.
Performing the US Latina and Latino Borderlands is a vital addition
to the growing body of scholarship focused on the ''performatics''
of border-crossers, bordernatives, and border-inhabitants as
necessary sources of knowledge.
*Latino Studies*
I would recommend this book for scholars interested in learning
about diverse ways that marginalized populations seize the tools of
performance and alter them to shift the story. . . Each chapter
contains enough cultural context for scholars unfamiliar with
Latina/o Studies and enough entertaining performance for
everyone.
*Text and Presentation*
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