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The interdisciplinary essays in Decolonial Voices discuss racialized, subaltern, feminist, and diasporic identities and the aesthetic politics of hybrid and mestiza/o cultural productions. This collection represents several key directions in the field: First, it charts how subaltern cultural productions of the US/ Mexico borderlands speak to the intersections of "local," "hemispheric," and "globalized" power relations of the border imaginary. Second, it recovers the Mexican women's and Chicana literary and cultural heritages that have been ignored by Euro-American canons and patriarchal exclusionary practices. It also expands the field in postnationalist directions by creating an interethnic, comparative, and transnational dialogue between Chicana and Chicano, African American, Mexican feminist, and U.S. Native American cultural vocabularies.
Contributors include Norma Alarcón, Arturo J. Aldama, Frederick Luis Aldama, Cordelia Chávez Candelaria, Alejandra Elenes, Ramón Garcia, María Herrera-Sobek, Patricia Penn Hilden, Gaye T. M. Johnson, Alberto Ledesma, Pancho McFarland, Amelia María de la Luz Montes, Laura Elisa Pérez, Naomi Quiñonez, Sarah Ramirez, Rolando J. Romero, Delberto Dario Ruiz, Vicki Ruiz, José David Saldívar, Anna Sandoval, and Jonathan Xavier Inda.
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword by María Herrera-Sobek
Introduction: Peligro! Subversive Subjects: Chicana and Chicano Cultural Studies in the 21st Century." Arturo J. Aldama and Naomi Quiñonez.
PART I: DANGEROUS BODIES
1. Arturo J. Aldama, "Borders, Violence and the Struggles for Chicana/o Subjectivity."
2. Laura Pérez, "Dresses and Body Decoration in Contemporary Chicana Art."
3. Ramón Garcia, "New Iconographies: Film Culture in Chicano Cultural Production."
4. Frederick Luis Aldama, "New Millennia Chicano/a Bodies in Edward J. Olmos' American Me."
5. Jonathan Xavier Inda, "Biopower, Reproduction, and the Migrant Woman's Body."
6. Norma Alarcón, "Anzaldúa's Frontera: Inscribing Gynetics."
PART II: DISMANTLING COLONIAL/ PATRIARCHAL LEGACIES
7. Naomi Quiñonez, "Hijas de La Malinche: Re-Writing Postcolonial Discourse Through the
Literature of First Wave Chicana Writers."
8. Patricia Penn Hilden, "How the Border Lies: Some Historical Reflections."
9. Amelia María de la Luz Montes, "How I am Received": Nationalism, Race and Gender in
Who Would Have Thought It?"
10. Cordelia Candelaria, "Engendering Re/Solutions: The (Feminist) Legacy of Estela Portillo Trambley (1926-1998)."
11. Anna Sandoval, "Unir Los Lazos: Toward a Comparative Study of Chicana and Mexicana
Literature."
12. Sarah Ramirez, "Borders, Feminism and Spirituality: Movements in Chicana Artistic Revisioning."
PART III: MAPPING SPACE AND RECLAIMING PLACE
13. Alejandra Elenes, "Border/Transformative Pedagogies at the End of the Millennium: Chicana/o Cultural Studies and Education."
14. José David Saldívar, "On the Bad Edge of La Frontera."
15. Pancho McFarland, "'Here is Something You Can't Understand': Chicano Rap and the Critique of Globalization."
16. Gaye T. M Johnson, "A Sifting of Centuries: Afro-Chicana/o Interaction and Popular Musical Culture."
17. Alberto Ledesma, "Chicana/o Undocumented Immigrant Narratives as Acts of Political and Intellectual Responsibility."
18. Delberto Dario Ruiz, "Teki Lenguas del Yollotzin (Cut Tongues From the Heart): Colonial Impositions, Hegemonic Borders and Shifting Spaces."
19. Rolando J. Romero. "The Alamo, Slavery and the Politics of Memory."
20. Vicki Ruiz, "Color Coding: Reflections at the Millennium."
Contributors
Index
