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11%OFFLaura G. Gutiérrez - Performing Mexicanidad: Vendidas y Cabareteras on the Transnational Stage - 9780292722880 - V9780292722880
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Performing Mexicanidad: Vendidas y Cabareteras on the Transnational Stage

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Description for Performing Mexicanidad: Vendidas y Cabareteras on the Transnational Stage Paperback. Using interdisciplinary performance studies and cultural studies frameworks, this title examines the cultural representation of queer sexuality in the contemporary cultural production of Mexican female and Chicana performance and visual artists. Series: Chicana Matters. Num Pages: 272 pages, 13 b&w photos, 8 color photos in section. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; AB; JFFK; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 241 x 18. Weight in Grams: 446.

Using interdisciplinary performance studies and cultural studies frameworks, Laura G. Gutiérrez examines the cultural representation of queer sexuality in the contemporary cultural production of Mexican female and Chicana performance and visual artists. In particular, she locates the analytical lenses of feminist theory and queer theory in a central position to interrogate Mexican female dissident sexualities in transnational public culture.

This is the first book-length study to wed performance studies and queer theory in examining the performative/performance work of important contemporary Mexicana and Chicana cultural workers. It proposes that the creations of several important artists—Chicana visual artist Alma López; ... Read more

Gutiérrez demonstrates how arenas formerly closed to female performers are now providing both an artistic outlet and a powerful political tool that crosses not only geographic borders but social, sexual, political, and class boundaries as well, and deconstructs the relationships among media, hierarchies of power, and the cultures of privilege.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Chicana Matters
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Austin, TX, United States
ISBN
9780292722880
SKU
V9780292722880
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About Laura G. Gutiérrez
Laura G. Gutiérrez is Associate Professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

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