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Velvet Barrios
Alicia . Ed(S): Gaspar de Alba
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Hardback. Editor(s): Gaspar de Alba, Alicia. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 355 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JFSL; JHBT; JHMC; VFVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 168 x 25. Weight in Grams: 617.
In Chicana/o popular culture, nothing signifies the working class, highly-layered, textured, and metaphoric sensibility known as "rasquache aesthetic" more than black velvet art. The essays in this volume examine that aesthetic by looking at icons, heroes, cultural myths, popular rituals, and border issues as they are expressed in a variety of ways. The contributors dialectically engage methods of popular cultural studies with discourses of gender, sexuality, identity politics, representation, and cultural production. In addition to a hagiography of "locas santas," the book includes studies of the sexual politics of early Chicana activists in the Chicano youth movement, the representation of ... Read more
In Chicana/o popular culture, nothing signifies the working class, highly-layered, textured, and metaphoric sensibility known as "rasquache aesthetic" more than black velvet art. The essays in this volume examine that aesthetic by looking at icons, heroes, cultural myths, popular rituals, and border issues as they are expressed in a variety of ways. The contributors dialectically engage methods of popular cultural studies with discourses of gender, sexuality, identity politics, representation, and cultural production. In addition to a hagiography of "locas santas," the book includes studies of the sexual politics of early Chicana activists in the Chicano youth movement, the representation of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
355
Condition
New
Series
New Directions in Latino American Cultures
Number of Pages
327
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403960962
SKU
V9781403960962
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About Alicia . Ed(S): Gaspar de Alba
ALICIA GASPAR DE ALBA is Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she teaches courses on barrio popular culture, border consciousness, lesbian literature and creative writing. She is the author of Chicana Art Inside/Outside the Master's House (Texas 98) and Sor Juana's Second Dream (New Mexico 99).
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