International Perspectives on Chicana/o Studies

This World is My Place
Herausgeber: Leen, Catherine; Thornton, Niamh

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines how the field of Chicana/o studies has developed to become an area of interest to scholars far beyond the United States and Spain.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9781138097841
• ISBN-10: 1138097845
• Artikelnr.: 49670014

Autorenporträt

Catherine Leen is a Lecturer in the Department of Spanish at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, specialising in Mexican and Chicana/o literature and cinema and Argentine and Paraguayan cultures. Her recent publications include works on Sandra Cisneros and Guillermo Gómez-Peña. Niamh Thornton is a Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies and Film at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. She is a Latin Americanist with a particular focus on Mexican film and literature and a key interest in the representations of conflict. She has also written about queer representations and cyberculture.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part I: Critical Paradigms: Continuities and Transitions
1. From Chapbooks to Chica Lit: U.S. Latina Writers and the New Literary
Identity Ellen McCracken 2. Healing Family History/ (Her) Story: Writing
and Gardening in Pat Mora's House of Houses Imelda Martín-Junquera 3.
Transculturation, Memory, and History: Mary Helen Ponce's Hoyt Street-An
Autobiography Mario T. García. Part II: From the Regional to the Global 4.
My Super Sweet Fifteen: The Internationalisation of Quinceañeras in
Literature and Film Niamh Thornton 5. American Studies in Russia: Learning
Chicana/o Literature in Chita (Siberia) Tatiana Voronchenko 6. Moving
Subjects: The Politics of Death in Narratives of the Juárez Murders Nuala
Finnegan 7. Origins and Evolution of Homies as Hip Rasquache Cultural
Artifacts: Taking the Homies Out of the Barrio or the Barrio Out of the
Homies Francisco A. Lomelí. Part III: Visual Culture: Producing Resistance
8. The Construction of Justice in Chicana/o Art: From Recognition to
Distribution and Counterhegemony Cristina Elgue-Martini 9. Barbed Wire
Iconography and Aesthetic Activism: The Borderlands, Mexican Immigration
and Chicana/o Art María Herrera-Sobek 10. Virgen Transatlantic: Religious
Iconography in Irish and Chicana/o Art Catherine Leen. Conclusion. Guide to
Further Reading.