Latina outsiders remaking Latina identity. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Grisel Y. Acosta.
• Editors: Acosta, Grisel (Grisel Y.)
• Contents: Introduction / Grisel Y. Acosta -- Punks and hipsters : Latina outsiders remaking Latina identity / Grisel Y. Acosta -- "The child is bewitched" : syncretism and self-making in Cristina García's Dreaming in Cuban / Alexander Lalama -- Coritos for las de afuera / Carolina Hinojosa-Cisneros -- The journey of a sexy nerd : antes muerte que sencilla / Connie Pertuz -- Just for standing out / Toni Plummer -- Activism is not a phase : testimonio of a radical Xicana Ph.D. / Irene M. Sánchez -- Playing chola : the discourse of subjects and subject-selves / Veronica Sandoval -- Dear world / Alma Luz Villanueva -- Ruidosas to the front : Alice Bag and the construction of Violence Girl / Sarah Dowman -- Loving Latinas : when questioning sexuality means questioning Latinidad / Sarah Paruolo -- Returning to the Bronx : gender fluidity and coming of age in Juliet takes a breath / Grisel Y. Acosta -- Separación / Luis Lopez-Maldonado -- Catcalls to my brain / Nancy Mercado -- Between and beyond the mediated and the material in Teatro Luna's Generation sex / Melissa Huerta -- Permission / Stephanie Jimenez -- The Lunasole class / Stephanie Laterza -- Parts of an autobiography / Carmen Giménez Smith -- Every woman keeps a flame against the wind / Kristen Millares Young -- Dear Barbara T. y Gloria E. : found auto-ethnographic letters to Afro-Latinx Nepantla acrobats / Monique Guishard -- Haciendo caras : the alter-native illuminations of Laura Varela and Vaago Weiland's Enlight-tent / Cathryn Merla-Watson -- On the threshold : a Latina English professor / M. Soledad Caballero -- My English Victorian dating troubles / Analicia Sotelo -- What was the passion fruit named before the Europeans renamed it? and Excused absences / Aline Mello -- Inlaws, outlaws / Anna Padilla-Davis -- Yo soy Boricua feminista, pa'que tu lo sepas! : notes from a DiaspoRican on performing outsider identity / Jessica Pabón-Colón -- Latina liberation : a conversation of soul, sacred well-being & wholeness / Gloria Rodriguez -- Pa'que sepan / Vanessa Alviso -- The symbology of the derailed mind / Angela Gonzalez-Gartelman -- Poison and monsters / Jiovanna Pérez -- Stroke / Nova Gutierrez -- You either see me or you don't / Joanmaris Cuello -- My mother as the voice of Frida Kahlo / Analicia Sotelo -- Sounding la raza cósmica / Veronica Salinas -- Heyoka / Alma Luz Villanueva -- Dropping dimes / Diana Díaz -- Good enough / Nancy Méndez-Booth -- Tracing Elaine Summer's dance and performance lineage : performance notes / Jane Gabriels -- Belonging, chaos, blood, and tissues : assumptions about Latina writers in academia / Naida Saavedra -- Write like a girl / Claudia Rodriguez -- Conclusion / Grisel Y. Acosta.
• Publisher Details: London New York : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 305.48/68073; Hispanic American women -- Social conditions; Hispanic Americans -- Ethnic identity; Hispanic American women -- Literary collections; Hispanic American women -- Biography; Subculture -- United States; Marginality, Social -- United States; Outsiders in literature; Outsiders in art; Ethnic relations; Hispanic American women; Hispanic American women -- Social conditions; Hispanic Americans -- Ethnic identity; Marginality, Social; Outsiders in art; Outsiders in literature; Subculture; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies; United States -- Ethnic relations; United States; Biography; Literary collections; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429401558; 0429401558; 9780429686177; 9780429686191; 0429686196; 9780429686184; 0429686188
• Related ISBNs: 042968617X; 9781138393769; 1138393762
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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