Domestic Negotiations: Gender, Nation, and Self-Fashioning in US Mexicana and Chicana Literature and Art Contributor(s): McMahon, Marci R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813560942 ISBN-13: 9780813560946 Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: July 2013 Click for more in this series: Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the |
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BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - Hispanic American - Social Science | Women's Studies - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Hispanic American Studies |
Dewey: 810.986 |
LCCN: 2012033358 |
Series: Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the |
Physical Information: 0.59" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.85 lbs) 260 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Ethnic Orientation - Latino |
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index |
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Publisher Description: Winner of the 2014 NACCS Tejas Non-Fiction Book Award This interdisciplinary study explores how US Mexicana and Chicana authors and artists across different historical periods and regions use domestic space to actively claim their own histories. Through "negotiation"-a concept that accounts for artistic practices outside the duality of resistance/accommodation-and "self-fashioning," Marci R. McMahon demonstrates how the very sites of domesticity are used to engage the many political and recurring debates about race, gender, and immigration affecting Mexicanas and Chicanas from the early twentieth century to today. Domestic Negotiations covers a range of archival sources and cultural productions, including the self-fashioning of the "chili queens" of San Antonio, Texas, Jovita Gonz lez's romance novel Caballero, the home economics career and cookbooks of Fabiola Cabeza de Baca, Sandra Cisneros's "purple house controversy" and her acclaimed text The House on Mango Street, Patssi Valdez's self-fashioning and performance of domestic space in Asco and as a solo artist, Diane Rodr guez's performance of domesticity in Hollywood television and direction of domestic roles in theater, and Alma L pez's digital prints of domestic labor in Los Angeles. With intimate close readings, McMahon shows how Mexicanas and Chicanas shape domestic space to construct identities outside of gendered, racialized, and xenophobic rhetoric. |
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