Performing Mexicanidad : vendidas y cabareteras on the transnational stage / Laura G. Gutiérrez
- Author:
- Gutierrez, Laura G., 1968-
- Published:
- Austin : University of Texas, 2010.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 250 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
- 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.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780292722088 (cloth : alk. paper)
0292722087 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780292722880 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0292722885 (pbk. : alk. paper) - Note:
- Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Wisconsin, 2000.
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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