Mariana Ortega

Carnalities

The Art of Living in Latinidad

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Produktbeschreibung

Mariana Ortega presents a phenomenological study of aesthetics grounded in the work of Latinx artists, theorizing that photography is an affective medium crucial for processes of self-formation, resistance, and mourning in Latinx life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781478028161
• ISBN-10: 1478028165
• Artikelnr.: 70274207

Autorenporträt

Mariana Ortega is Associate Professor of Philosophy, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Latina/o Studies at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of In-Between: Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self and coeditor of Constructing the Nation: A Race and Nationalism Reader and Theories of the Flesh: Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation, and Resistance.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Skin of Light  ix
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction  1
I. Carnal Crossings: Eye and Mouth  27
1. Affected by the Eye: A Prelude to a Carnal Aesthetics  29
2. To Be a Mouth: Anzalduan Carnalities  56
3. Spilling Herself in Trees: Autoarte and Laura Aguilar’s Queer Erotics 
87
II. Border Crossings: Sorrow and Memory  131
4. Sorrow, Aesthetic Unsettlement, and Sonic Rupture in the Mexico-US
Borderlands  133
5. Crossing and Feeling Brown: Verónica Gabriela Cárdenas’s Carnal Light 
171
6. Something Very Extraordinary: Incandescence and the Wounding Photograph 
210
Notes  233
Bibliography  287
Index  309