This book interrogates the identity politics involved in framing Colombian diasporas, examining the ways that creative writers, directors, performers and artists negotiate collective and personal experiences that shape their identities through their art and cultural productions.
New consideration of the diversity of Afro-Latin American and Indigenous communities within the overarching categorization of "Colombianness" or Colombianidad have led to increased focus on the representation of Colombia and Colombian diasporic communities. By focusing on different cultural productions—novels, memoirs, films, plays and visual arts—this book analyzes the performance of Colombianidad by communities throughout the diaspora. Topics include Afro-Colombian, US Latinx, Caribbean and queer identity, marginalization of racialized bodies within Colombia and the Colombian diaspora, and the politics of identity representation. Colombian Diasporic Identities: Representations in Literature, Film, Theater and Art examines how a consciously Colombian diasporic existence travels and is altered across geographic locales.
Colombian Diasporic Identities will be key reading for scholars and students in US Latinx studies, and Latin American diasporic studies, together with ethnic studies, gender studies, queer studies and literature.
Author(s): Annie Mendoza
Series: Global Gender
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 190
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Images
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Notes
1 Visualizing the Invisible: The Novels of Patricia Engel
Colombian Diasporic Consciousness and the Layered Identities Within US Latino Literature
Luchando … Existiendo … Desapareciendo (Fighting … Existing … Disappearing): Social Invisibility in Vida
Trans-Atlantic Identity Awareness in It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris
Forging Connections Across the Ocean: Cuba, Colombia and a Larger Caribbean Narrative
Conclusion
Notes
2 Queering Caribbean Identity and Language: LGBTQ+ Novels and Memoirs From the Colombian Diaspora; Jaime Manrique,...
The Inter-Resemblances of Manrique, Delgado Lopera and Hernández
Jaime Manrique’s Pioneering Literary Trajectory: Afro-Colombian-Queer-Caribbean Contributions
Julián Delgado Lopera’s Fiebre Tropical: a Queer Bildungsroman Within the Façade of Miami
Daisy Hernández: Caribbean Hybridity and Queer Awakenings in A Cup of Water Under My Bed
Conclusion
Notes
3 Diasporic Hair: Mapping Out Afro-Colombian Identity in the Film La Playa D.C. (2012)
Breaking the Gaze of Narcocultura, Routing Out Attention to the Communities of the Pacific Coast
Raíces, Roots and Routes: a Heritage of Traditions
Conclusion
Notes
4 Remixing, Repeating and Reinterpreting: John Leguizamo On Being a Ghetto Klown
Leguizamo: a “Ghetto Klown” On the Streets of Queens and Hollywouldn’t
Leguizamo as a Racially Extended Remix of Himself
Leguizamo as DJ, Spinning the Records of His Life
Conclusion
Notes
5 Reappropriating Impositions: A Conversation With Gonzalo Fuenmayor
Notes
Bibliography
Index
