Decolonizing Latinx masculinities / edited by Arturo J. Aldama and Frederick Luis Aldama.

Date:
2020
  • Books

About this work

Description

"Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities presents scholarly chapters that 'address the complex issues of racialized masculinities in the Latinx communities'. Building on Chicana feminist theories and decolonial gender studies, the manuscript explores such issues as machismo, patriarchy, and compulsory heteronormativities; how these issues are reinforced; and how 'Latinx men are criminalized by the dominant discourse'. Arturo Aldama and Frederick Aldama take a hemispheric approach to their content in order to place Latinx masculinities within the broader context of the Américas. According to reviewer Richard T. Rodríguez: 'By examining recent films, historical and contemporary novels, political phenomena, theater and performance, short stories, and various popular cultural forms, the 18 essays assembled here and written by established and emergent scholars make a significant contribution to the literature on manhood, queer sexualities, and gender roles'"--Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2020.

Physical description

viii, 335 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series

Contributors

Contents

Decolonizing Latinx masculinities : an introduction / Frederick Luis Aldama and Arturo J. Aldama -- Hybrid Forms. Billy the Kid's corpse and the specter of Mexican manhood / John-Michael Rivera -- Trump's poetics of Caca : shitty "bad hombres" and "shithole" Latin American countries / Sergio A. Ma̕cas -- "Noizy Minorityz" : white republicans trapped in the cypher / Wayne Freeman -- Homage to an undocumented heartbreak / Alberto Ledesma -- Urban AlterNative masculinity : men, land, and re-indigenization in Black Chicago's food autonomy movement / Pancho McFarland -- Learning with Norma Montoya : scholarship as accompaniment, accountability, and the advancement of a conscientious and caring masculinity / Jonathan D. Gomez -- Transmedial Detoxifications. Decolonizing predatory masculinities in Breaking Bad and Mosquita y Mari / Arturo J. Aldama -- Fighting the good fight : grappling with queerness, masculinities, and violence in contemporary Latinx literature and film / T. Jackie Cuevas -- Latin lovers, Chismosas, and gendered discourses of power : the role of the subjective narrator in Jane the Virgin / Kristie Soares -- Fea, Firme y Formal : decolonizing Latinx female masculinity / Ellie Herǹndez -- Chicano Dracula : the passions and predations of Bela Lugosi, Gomez Addams, and Kid Congo Powers / Paloma Martinez-Cruz -- Troubling Storyworlds : Unsettling Masculinities. The hyperpatriarchal games : machismo and its discontents in contemporary young-adult Latinx literature / Lisa S̀nchez Goǹzlez -- The uncertain harbor of home : fragments, Familia, and failure in Manuel Mųoz's "Bring Brang Brung" / William Orchard -- Unsettling monuments of Chicanx masculinity Estela Portillo Trambley's "Rain of Scorpions" / Francisco E. Robles -- Why the Latin-X Matters : From Performance to Activism. Trans*lating the genderqueer-x through Caxcan, Nahua, and Xicanx In̕dgena knowledge / Jennie Luna and Gabriel S. Estrada -- "Eres Cuir, or What?" : Latinx disidentificatory practices of becoming / Laura Malaver -- Decolonizing heteronormativities and patriarchy within dominant immigrant rights discourse / Alejandra Benita Portillos -- A rodeo to call their own : LGBTQ vaqueros and the gay rodeo of the American West / Nicholas Villanueva Jr.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Languages

Subjects

Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    TW.7
    		Open shelves

Permanent link

Identifiers

ISBN

  • 9780816539369
  • 0816539367