Full Description
Decolonial Voices offers a range of interdisciplinary essays that discuss racialised, subaltern, feminist and diasporic identities and the aesthetic politics of hybrid and mestiza/o cultural productions. In doing so, this volume brings together a body of theoretically rigorous interdisciplinary essays that articulate and expand the contours of Chicana and Chicano cultural studies. This collection seeks to represent several key directions in the field: first, it charts how subaltern cultural productions of the US/ Mexico borderlands (film, art, music, lit, pop. culture and alternate historiographies) speak to what Walter Mignolo has called the intersections of "local," "hemispheric," and "globalised" power relations of the border imaginary. Secondly, this collection excavates and recovers the Mexican women's and Chicana literary and cultural heritages (1850s-present) that have been ignored and suppressed by Euroamerican canons and patriarchal exclusionary practices. Our collection also seeks to expand the field in post-nationalist directions by creating an interethnic, comparative, and transnational dialogue between Chicana and Chicano, African American, Mexican feminist, and U.S.Native American cultural vocabularies. In charting these discursive movements of this growing and heterogeneous field, there is a commitment to understand how Chicana and Chicano cultural productions articulate a resistance to the multiplicity of oppression across race, class, gender, and sexuality, while performing a cultural mestizaje and hybridity in the age of transnational globalisations. Contributors include Norma Alarcon, Arturo J. Aldama, Frederick Luis Aldama, Cordelia Chavez Candelaria, Alejandra Elenes, Ramon Garcia, Maria Herrera-Sobek, Patricia Penn Hilden, Gaye T. M Johnson, Alberto Ledesma, Pancho McFarland, Amelia Maria de la Luz Montes, Laura Elisa Perez, Naomi Quinonez, Sarah Ramirez, Rolando J. Romero, Delberto Dario Ruiz, Vicki Ruiz, Jose David Saldivar, Anna Sandoval, and Jonathan Xavier Inda.
Contents
Contents; Foreword by Maria Herrera-Sobek; Introduction - Peligro! Subversive Subjects - Chicana and Chicano Cultural Studies in the 21st Century." - Arturo J. Aldama and Naomi Quinonez; PART I - DANGEROUS BODIES; Borders, Violence and the Struggles for Chicana/o Subjectivity - Arturo J. Aldama; Dresses and Body Decoration in Contemporary Chicana Art - Laura Perez; New Iconographies - Film Culture in Chicano Cultural Production - Ramon Garcia; New Millennia Chicano/a Bodies in Edward J. Olmos' American Me - Frederick Luis Aldama; Biopower, Reproduction, and the Migrant Woman's Body - Jonathan Xavier Inda; Anzald a's Frontera - Inscribing Gynetics - Norma Alarcon; PART II - DISMANTLING COLONIAL/ PATRIARCHAL LEGACIES; Hijas de La Malinche - Re-Writing Postcolonial Discourse Through the Literature of First Wave Chicana Writers - Naomi Quinonez; How the Border Lies - Some Historical Reflections - Patricia Penn Hilden; How I am Received" - Nationalism, Race and Gender in Who Would Have Thought It? - Amelia Maria de la Luz Montes; Engendering Re/Solutions - The (Feminist) Legacy of Estela Portillo Trambley (1926-1998) - Cordelia Candelaria; Unir Los Lazos - Toward a Comparative Study of Chicana and Mexicana; Literature - Anna Sandoval; Borders, Feminism and Spirituality - Movements in Chicana Artistic Revisioning - Sarah Ramirez; PART III - MAPPING SPACE AND RECLAIMING PLACE; Border/Transformative Pedagogies at the End of the Millennium - Chicana/o Cultural Studies and Education - Alejandra Elenes; On the Bad Edge of La Frontera - Jose David Saldivar; 'Here is Something You Can't Understand' - Chicano Rap and the Critique of Globalization - Pancho McFarland; A Sifting of Centuries - Afro-Chicana/o Interaction and Popular Musical Culture - Gaye T. M Johnson; Chicana/o Undocumented Immigrant Narratives as Acts of Political and Intellectual Responsibility - Alberto Ledesma; Teki Lenguas del Yollotzin (Cut Tongues From the Heart) - Colonial Impositions, Hegemonic Borders and Shifting Spaces - Delberto Dario Ruiz; The Alamo, Slavery and the Politics of Memory - Rolando J. Romero; Color Coding - Reflections at the Millennium - Vicki Ruiz
