Performing Mexicanidad : vendidas y cabareteras on the transnational stage / Laura G. Gutiérrez.

Author/creator Gutierrez, Laura G., 1968-
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoAustin : University of Texas Press, 2010.
Descriptionxiii, 250 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesChicana matters series
Chicana matters series. ^A493624
Contents Introduction. Unsettling comforts : notes on language, politics, and sex/sexuality in a transnational context -- Reimagining the archives of femininity and sexuality. Sexing Guadalupe in transnational double crossings -- Gender parody, political satire, and postmodern rancheras : Astrid Hadad's "heavy nopal" aesthetics -- Fue en un cabaret : nation, melodrama, gender, and sexuality in contemporary Mexican performance -- Chicana and Mexicana queer performative interventions. Nao Bustamante's "bad-girl" aesthetics -- Ximena Cuevas's critical collages -- Transtortilleras : political cabaret in the twenty-first century.
General noteBased on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Wisconsin, 2000.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2009051466
ISBN9780292722088 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0292722087 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780292722880 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0292722885 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PN1590.S3 G88 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold