Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
|
Your cart is empty |
|||
Showing 1 - 7 of 7 matches in All Departments
In this interdisciplinary volume, contributors analyze the expression of Latina/o cultural identity through performance. With music, theater, dance, visual arts, body art, spoken word, performance activism, fashion, and street theater as points of entry, contributors discuss cultural practices and the fashoning of identity in Latino/a communities throughout the US. Examining the areas of crossover between Latin and American cultures gives new meaning to the notion of "borderlands." This volume features senior scholars and up-and-coming academics from cultural, visual, and performance studies, folklore, and ethnomusicology.
U.S. culture has been profoundly impacted by contributions from Mexico and the rest of Central America, South America, and the Spanish Caribbean. These contributions and their adaptations in the United States are showcased in nearly 500 essay entries on noted people, festivities, items, terms, movements, sports, food, events, places, visual and performing arts, film, institutions, fashion, literature, organizations, the media, and much more. The wide range of entries with many areas of unique coverage will meet the high demand for multidisciplinary use. Students and other readers will appreciate the inclusiveness of cultural groups, the gender sensitivity, and the heavy contextual grounding of the topics. The Latino population is the fastest-growing segment of our society, and this encyclopedia is the first to focus on the breadth of their cultural expression. The up-to-date entries and authoritative information provided by a host of subject experts will make this the source to turn to for quick reference and research. Numerous photos complement the text.
Violence and the Body: Race, Gender, and the State explores the relationship between subalternity, the discourse and technology of the body, and the rise and proliferation of racial, colonial, sexual, domestic, and state violence, examining the materiality of violence on the "otherized" body. Grounded in U.S./Mexico border and Latin American cultural studies, the essays in this collection intersect discussions of subalternity, violence, and discourses of the body in a transethnic, feminist, and global cultural studies context. They provide a global mapping of contemporary modes and acts of physical and representational violence and demonstrate how discourses of otherization are reinforced and interanimated through violence on what Elizabeth Grosz has called the "intensities" and "flows" of the body.
Colonial discourse in the United States has tended to criminalize,
pathologize, and depict as savage not only Native Americans but
Mexican immigrants, indigenous peoples in Mexico, and Chicanas/os
as well. While postcolonial studies of the past few decades have
focused on how these ethnicities have been constructed by others,
"Disrupting Savagism" reveals how each group, in turn, has actively
attempted to create for itself a social and textual space in which
certain negative prevailing discourses are neutralized and rendered
ineffective.
Traditional accounts of Colorado's history often reflect an
Anglocentric perspective that begins with the 1859 Pikes Peak Gold
Rush and Colorado's establishment as a state in 1876. "Enduring
Legacies" expands the study of Colorado's past and present by
adopting a borderlands perspective that emphasizes the multiplicity
of peoples who have inhabited this region.
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 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."
In this interdisciplinary volume, contributors analyze the expression of Latina/o cultural identity through performance. With music, theater, dance, visual arts, body art, spoken word, performance activism, fashion, and street theater as points of entry, contributors discuss cultural practices and the fashoning of identity in Latino/a communities throughout the US. Examining the areas of crossover between Latin and American cultures gives new meaning to the notion of "borderlands." This volume features senior scholars and up-and-coming academics from cultural, visual, and performance studies, folklore, and ethnomusicology.
|
You may like...
Women In Solitary - Inside The Female…
Shanthini Naidoo
Paperback
(1)
The Lie Of 1652 - A Decolonised History…
Patric Mellet
Paperback
(7)
Herontdek Jou Selfvertroue - Sewe Stappe…
Rolene Strauss
Paperback
(1)
Africa's Business Revolution - How to…
Acha Leke, Mutsa Chironga, …
Hardcover
(1)
|