Domino Renee Perez

Fatherhood in the Borderlands

A Daughter's Slow Approach

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Produktbeschreibung

A contemplative exploration of cultural representations of Mexican American fathers in contemporary media.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 153mm x 229mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781477326343
• ISBN-10: 1477326340
• Artikelnr.: 63515759

Autorenporträt

Domino Renee Perez is an associate professor in the department of English and the Center for Mexican American Studies at UT Austin. She is the author of There Was a Woman: La Llorona from Folklore to Popular Culture and coeditor of Race and Cultural Practice in Popular Culture.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Preface: The Slow Lowdown
2. Introduction: A Slow Approach to Fathers and Other Fictions
3. Part I. Sourcing Authority
* Film: Ancianos not Abuelos: Making Space and Mediating Male Power
* Personal Narrative: “No, I Am Your Father”
* Literature: Fathers and Racialized Masculinities in Luis Alberto
Urrea’s In Search of Snow
4. Part II. Instrumentalizing Indigeneity
* Personal Narrative: Nobody Ever Said We Were Aztecs
* Film: Fatherhood, Chicanismo, and the Cultural Politics of Healing in
La Mission
* Literature: New Tribalism and Chicana/o Indigeneity in the Work of
Gloria Anzaldúa
5. Part III. Fantasmas and Fronteras
* Literature: Fathers, Sons, and Other (Short) Fictions
* Film: Meta and Mutant Fathers
* Personal Narrative: Family Fictions and Other Lies about the Truth
6. Conclusion: Fathers and Futurity
7. Parting Shot
8. Acknowledgments
9. Notes
10. Works Cited and Consulted
11. Index