"Queering Mestizaje" employs theories of postcolonial cultural
studies (including performance studies, queer and feminist theory)
to examine the notion of mestizaje---the mixing of races, and
specifically indigenous peoples, with European colonizers---and how
this phenomenon manifests itself in three geographically diverse
spaces: the United States, Latin America, and the Philippines.
Alicia Arrizon argues that, as an imaginary site for racialized,
gendered, and sexualized identities, mestizaje raises questions
about historical transformation and cultural memory across Spanish
postcolonial sites.
Arrizon offers new, queer readings of the hybrid, the
intercultural body, and the hyphenated self, building on the work
of Gloria Anzaldua, Antonio Benitez-Rojo, Walter Mignolo, and Vera
Kutzinski, while challenging accepted discourses about the
relationship between colonizer and colonized. "Queering Mestizaje"
is unique in the connections it makes between the Spanish colonial
legacy in the Philippines and in the Americas. An engagingly
eclectic array of cultural materials---including examples from
performance art, colonial literature, visual art, fashion, and
consumer products---are discussed, and included in the book's
twenty-nine illustrations.
"Arrizon takes as her point of departure the connections and
distinctions between the four keywords in the title (each with a
long, specific, and convoluted history in its own right) while
bringing together the Philippines, the Hispanophone Caribbean, and
the United States to configure a map carved by the same blade of
colonialism and imperialism. In its conjoining of queer, mestizaje,
transculturation and performance, the pleasurable andenlightening
variety of its textual examples, and its commitment to theorize
desire from the space of queer mestizaje, her book makes a unique
and accomplished contribution."
---Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, Stanford University
Alicia Arrizon is Professor of Women's Studies at the University
of California, Riverside. She is author of "Latina Performance:
Traversing the Stage" and co-editor of "Latinas on Stage: Practice
and Theory,"
Illustration: Judith F. Baca, La Mestizaje (1991), pastel on
paper. (c) SPARC.
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