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 Alarc?n, Arturo J. Aldama, Frederick Luis Aldama, Cordelia Ch?vez Candelaria, Alejandra Elenes, Ram?n Garcia, Mar?a Herrera-Sobek, Patricia Penn Hilden, Gaye T. M. Johnson, Alberto Ledesma, Pancho McFarland, Amelia Mar?a de la Luz Montes, Laura Elisa P?rez, Naomi Qui?onez, Sarah Ramirez, Rolando J. Romero, Delberto Dario Ruiz, Vicki Ruiz, Jos? David Sald?var, Anna Sandoval, and Jonathan Xavier Inda.
Author(s): Arturo J. Aldama, Naomi Helena Quinonez
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 304
Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction: ¡Peligro! Subversive Subjects: Chicana and Chicano Cultural Studies in the 21st Century......Page 16
Part I. Dangerous Bodies......Page 24
1. Millennial Anxieties: Borders,Violence,and the Struggle for Chicana and Chicano Subjectivity......Page 26
2. Writing on the Social Body: Dresses and Body Ornamentation in Contemporary Chicana Art......Page 45
3. New Iconographies: Film Culture in Chicano Cultural Production......Page 79
4. Penalizing Chicano/A Bodies in Edward J.Olmos’s American Me......Page 93
5. Biopower, Reproduction, and the Migrant Woman’s Body......Page 113
6. Anzaldúa’s Frontera: Inscribing Gynetics......Page 128
Part II. Dismantling Colonial/ Patriarchal Legacies......Page 142
7. Re(Riting) the Chicana Postcolonial: From Traitor to 21st Century Interpreter......Page 144
8. How the Border Lies: Some Historical Reflections......Page 167
9. “See How I Am Received”: Nationalism, Race, and Gender in Who Would Have Thought It?......Page 192
10. Engendering Re/Solutions: The (Feminist) Legacy of Estela Portillo Trambley......Page 210
11. Unir los Lazos: Braiding Chicana and Mexicana Subjectivities......Page 223
12. Borders, Feminism, and Spirituality: Movements in Chicana Aesthetic Revisioning......Page 238
Part III. Mapping Space and Reclaiming Place......Page 258
13. Border/Transformative Pedagogies at the End of the Millennium: Chicana/o Cultural Studies and Education......Page 260
14. On the Bad Edge of La Frontera......Page 277
15. “Here Is Something You Can’t Understand ...”: Chicano Rap and the Critique of Globalization......Page 312
16. A Sifting of Centuries: Afro-Chicano Interaction and Popular Musical Culture in California, 1960 –2000......Page 331
17. Narratives of Undocumented Mexican Immigration as Chicana/o Acts of Intellectual and Political Responsibility......Page 345
18. Teki Lenguas del Yollotzín (Cut Tongues from the Heart): Colonialism, Borders, and the Politics of Space......Page 370
19. The Alamo, Slavery, and the Politics of Memory......Page 381
20. Color Coded: Reflections at the Millennium......Page 393
Contributors......Page 404
Index......Page 408
