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Homecoming Queers
Marivel T. Danielson
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Description for Homecoming Queers
paperback. Provides a discussion of the multiple strategies used by queer Latina authors and artists in the US to challenge silence and invisibility within mainstream media, literary canons, and theater spaces. This work explores the multiple ways identity shapes and shades creative expression. Series: Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States. Num Pages: 242 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 367.
Homecoming Queers provides a critical discussion of the multiple strategies used by queer Latina authors and artists in the United States to challenge silence and invisibility within mainstream media, literary canons, and theater spaces. Marivel T. Danielson's analysis reveals the extensive legacy of these cultural artists, including novelists, filmmakers, students and activists, comedians, performers, and playwrights. By clearly discussing the complexities and universalities of ethnic, racial, sexual, gender, and class intersections between queer Chicana and U.S. Latinas, Danielson explores the multiple ways identity shapes and shades creative expression. Weaknesses and gaps are revealed in the treatment of difference as a ... Read more
Homecoming Queers provides a critical discussion of the multiple strategies used by queer Latina authors and artists in the United States to challenge silence and invisibility within mainstream media, literary canons, and theater spaces. Marivel T. Danielson's analysis reveals the extensive legacy of these cultural artists, including novelists, filmmakers, students and activists, comedians, performers, and playwrights. By clearly discussing the complexities and universalities of ethnic, racial, sexual, gender, and class intersections between queer Chicana and U.S. Latinas, Danielson explores the multiple ways identity shapes and shades creative expression. Weaknesses and gaps are revealed in the treatment of difference as a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
Series
Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
Number of Pages
242
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813545721
SKU
V9780813545721
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About Marivel T. Danielson
MARIVEL T. DANIELSON is an assistant professor of literature and cultural studies in the department of transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o studies at Arizona State University.
Reviews for Homecoming Queers
Homecoming Queers treats issues central to the formation of queer Latina identity, subjectivity, and representation. The book makes strong interventions in the transdisciplinary locations that comprise Latina/o literary and cultural studies and cultivates the furthering of our engagement in making social change.
Tiffany Ana Lopez
University of California, Riverside
Short version: Marivel Danielson's analysis of Chicana Latina ... Read more
Tiffany Ana Lopez
University of California, Riverside
Short version: Marivel Danielson's analysis of Chicana Latina ... Read more