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Latinx Studies: The Key Concepts is an accessible guide to the
central concepts and issues that inform Latinx Studies globally. It
summarizes, explains, contextualizes, and assesses key critical
concepts, perspectives, developments, and debates in Latinx
Studies. At once comprehensive in coverage and detailed and
specific in examples analyzed, it provides over 25 key concepts to
the field of Latinx Studies as shaped within historical, social,
cultural, regional, and global contexts, including: * Body * Border
Theory * Digital Era * Familia * Immigration * Intersectionality *
Language * Latinidad/es * Latinofuturism * Narco Cultura * Popular
Culture * Sports Fully cross-referenced and complete with
suggestions for further reading, Latinx Studies: The Key Concepts
is an essential guide for anyone studying race, ethnicity, gender,
class, education, culture, and globalism.
Latinx Studies: The Key Concepts is an accessible guide to the
central concepts and issues that inform Latinx Studies globally. It
summarizes, explains, contextualizes, and assesses key critical
concepts, perspectives, developments, and debates in Latinx
Studies. At once comprehensive in coverage and detailed and
specific in examples analyzed, it provides over 25 key concepts to
the field of Latinx Studies as shaped within historical, social,
cultural, regional, and global contexts, including: * Body * Border
Theory * Digital Era * Familia * Immigration * Intersectionality *
Language * Latinidad/es * Latinofuturism * Narco Cultura * Popular
Culture * Sports Fully cross-referenced and complete with
suggestions for further reading, Latinx Studies: The Key Concepts
is an essential guide for anyone studying race, ethnicity, gender,
class, education, culture, and globalism.
This first critical biography of Arturo Islas (1938 1991) brings to
life the complex and overlapping worlds inhabited by the gay
Chicano poet, novelist, scholar, and professor. Gracefully written
and deeply researched, "Dancing with Ghosts "considers both the
larger questions of Islas's lifeOCohis sexuality, racial
identification, and political personalityOCoand the events of his
everyday existence, from his childhood in the borderlands of El
Paso to his adulthood in San Francisco and at Stanford University.
Frederick Aldama portrays the many facets of Islas's engaging and
often contradictory personality. He also explores Islas's coming
into the craft of poetry and fictionOCohis extraordinary struggle
to publish his novels, "The Rain God, La Mollie and the King of
Tears, "and "Migrant Souls"OCoas well as his pivotal role in paving
the way for a new generation of Chicano/a scholars and writers.
Through a skillful interweaving of life history, criticism, and
literary theory, Aldama paints an unusually rich and wide-ranging
portrait of both the man and the eventful times in which he lived.
He describes Islas's struggle with polio as a child, his near-death
experience and ileostomy as a thirty-year-old beginning to explore
his queer sexuality in San Francisco in the 1970s, and his fatal
struggle with AIDS in the late 1980s. Drawing from hundreds of
unpublished letters, lecture notes, drafts of essays, novels, and
poetry archived at Stanford University, Aldama also deals frankly
with the controversies that swirled around Islas's impassioned love
life, his drug addictions, and his scholarly and professional
career as one of the first Chicano/a professors in the United
States. He discusses the importance of Islas's pioneering role in
bridging Anglo, Latin American, Chicano/a, and European
storytelling styles and voices. "Dancing with Ghosts "succeeds
brilliantly both as an account of a fascinating life that embraced
many different worlds and as a chronicle of the grand historical
shifts that transformed the late-twentieth-century American
cultural landscape."
Through a series of provocative conversations, Frederick Luis
Aldama and Herbert Lindenberger, who have written widely on
literature, film, music, and art, locate a place for the
discomforting and the often painfully unpleasant within aesthetics.
The conversational format allows them to travel informally across
many centuries and many art forms. They have much to tell one
another about the arts since the advent of modernism soon after
1900-the nontonal music, for example, of the Second Vienna School,
the chance-directed music and dance of John Cage and Merce
Cunningham, the in-your-faceness of such diverse visual artists as
Francis Bacon, Pablo Picasso, Willem de Kooning, Egon Schiele, Otto
Dix, and Damien Hirst. They demonstrate as well a long tradition of
discomforting art stretching back many centuries, for example, in
the Last Judgments of innumerable Renaissance painters, in Goya's
so-called "black" paintings, in Wagner's Tristan chord, and in the
subtexts of Shakespearean works such as King Lear and Othelloe.
This book is addressed at once to scholars of literature, art
history, musicology, and cinema. Although its conversational format
eschews the standard conventions of scholarly argument, it provides
original insights both into particular art forms and into
individual works within these forms. Among other matters, it
demonstrates how recent work in neuroscience may provide insights
in the ways that consumers process difficult and discomforting
works of art. The book also contributes to current aesthetic theory
by charting the dialogue that goes on-especially in aesthetically
challenging works- between creator, artifact, and consumer.
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