This collection of essays interrogates the most contested social, political, and aesthetic concept in Chicana/o cultural studies—resistance.
If Chicana/o culture was born of resistance amid assimilation and nationalistic forces, how has it evolved into the twenty-first century? This groundbreaking volume redresses the central idea of resistance in Chicana/o visual cultural expression through nine clustered discussions, each coordinating scholarly, critical, curatorial, and historical contextualizations alongside artist statements and interviews. Landmark artistic works—illustrations, paintings, sculpture, photography, film, and television—anchor each section. Contributors include David Avalos, Mel Casas, Ester Hernández, Nicholas Herrera, Luis Jiménez, Ellen Landis, Yolanda López, Richard Lou, Delilah Montoya, Laura Pérez, Lourdes Portillo, Luis Tapia, Chuy Treviño, Willie Varela, Kathy Vargas, René Yañez, Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, and more. Cara a cara, face-to-face, encounters across the collection reveal the varied richness of resistant strategies, movidas, as they position crucial terms of debate surrounding resistance, including subversion, oppression, affirmation, and identification.
The essays in the collection represent a wide array of perspectives on Chicana/o visual culture. Editors Scott L. Baugh and Víctor A. Sorell have curated a dialog among the many voices, creating an important new volume that redefines the role of resistance in Chicana/o visual arts and cultural expression.
Author(s): Scott L. Baugh, Víctor A. Sorell
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Year: 2015
Language: English
City: Tucson
Cover
Title page, Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Resisting Definitions of Chicana/o Visual Culture (Scott L. Baugh and Víctor A. Sorell)
(Re)Forming America’s Libertad (Ester Hernández)
Freedom and Gender in Ester Hernández’s Libertad
A Conversation with Yolanda López and Víctor A. Sorell
Thoughts on Who’s the Illegal Pilgrim
Remapping America in Ester Hernández’s Libertad and Yolanda López’s Who’s the Illegal Alien, Pilgrim?
San Diego Donkey Cart Reconsidered
A Remembered Dismemberment: David Avalos’s San Diego Donkey Cart
The Border Door: Complicating a Binary Space
Through The Border Door
Public Interventions and Social Disruptions
Thoughts on Dos Pedros sin Llaves
Thoughts on St. Peter Is Imprisoned
Pedro in the Pinta, Have You Seen My Keys?: Inside the Art of Luis Tapia and Nicholas Herrera
The Persistence of Chicana/o Art: Contemporary Santeros Reinterpret a Traditional Santo
From Man on Fire
Editorial Note
Rearing Mustang, Razing Mesteño
Kindred Spirits: On the Art and Life of Luis Jiménez
Occupying a Space Between Myth and Reality: The Sculpture of Luis Jiménez
A Conversation with Mel Casas and Rubén C. Cordova
Brown Paper Report
A Contingency Factor
Getting the Big Picture: Political Themes in the Humanscapes of Mel Casas
Revisiting My Alamo
Malinche y Pocahontas, Breaking Out of the Picture
From “Many Wests”
Topographies of the Imaginary: Kathy Vargas’s My Alamo and Robert C. Buitrón’s El Corrido de Happy Trails
Where Carnales Were, There Shall Unprodigal Daughters Be: Kathy Vargas’s My Alamo and Robert C. Buitrón’s Malinche y Pocahontas
A Conversation with Willie Varela and Scott L. Baugh
In This Burning World, Willie Varela Resists
Sense and Sensibilities: Discontinuing Conventions in/for Willie Varela’s Burning World
Tracking the Monster: Thoughts on Señorita Extraviada
Between Anger and Love: The Presence of Señorita Extraviada
The Eye of Pain/El Ojo del Dolor
Resisting the Violence of Values: Lourdes Portillo’s Señorita Extraviada as Performative Utterance
From Yo Soy Chicano to Resurrection Blvd., Thirty Years of Struggle
A Conversation with Dennis Leoni and Christine List
De-Essentializing Chicanismo: Interethnic Cooperation in the Work of Jesús Salvador Treviño
Editors and Contributors
Index