Latinofuturism describes a broad range of Latina/o speculative aesthetics and an emerging field o... more Latinofuturism describes a broad range of Latina/o speculative aesthetics and an emerging field of study. In addition to referencing a broad spectrum of speculative texts produced by Chicana/os, Puerto Ricans, Dominican Americans, Cuban Americans, and other Latin American immigrant populations, Latinofuturism also includes innovative cultural productions stemming from hybrid and fluid borderlands spaces such as the US–Mexico border. The umbrella genre of speculative fiction (SF), moreover, indexes the companion genres of science fiction (sci-fi), horror, and fantasy. Instead of approaching these genres separately, SF recognizes the ways in which these genres overlap, blend, and mutually inform one another. As Shelley Streeby notes, the umbrella genre of the speculative is especially useful in analyzing Latinofuturist texts that self-consciously appropriate and blend genres in a manner evocative of the mestizaje animating Latina/o culture. The broader category of SF further enables u...
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. July 2011. Major: American studies. Advisor: Dr. Loui... more University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. July 2011. Major: American studies. Advisor: Dr. Louis G. Mendoza. 1 computer file (PDF); ix, 228 pages.
... to bring to the fore both the specificity of colonial legacies and to connect these legacies ... more ... to bring to the fore both the specificity of colonial legacies and to connect these legacies to larger neo-colonial (trans)national geographies. ... to bring into purview how colonial legacies inhere in the present and collectively enunciate what I term a "spectral materialism": that which ...
Speculative fiction-encompassing both science fiction and fantasy-has emerged as a dynamic field ... more Speculative fiction-encompassing both science fiction and fantasy-has emerged as a dynamic field within Chicana/o and Latina/o studies, producing new critical vocabularies and approaches to topics that include colonialism and modernity, immigration and globalization, race and gender. As the first collection engaging Chicana/o and Latina/o speculative cultural production, Altermundos: Latin@ Speculative Literature, Film, and Popular Culture provides a comprehensive alternative to the view of speculative fiction as a largely white, male, Eurocentric, and heteronormative genre. It features original essays from more than twenty-five scholars as well as interviews, manifestos, short fiction, and new works from Chicana/o and Latina/o artists.
Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 2006
AMERICAN CROSSROADS Edited by Earl Lewis, George Lipsitz, Peggy Pascoe, George Sanchez, and Dana ... more AMERICAN CROSSROADS Edited by Earl Lewis, George Lipsitz, Peggy Pascoe, George Sanchez, and Dana Takagi 1. Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies, by Jose David Saldfvar 2. Trie White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton ...
Latinofuturism describes a broad range of Latina/o speculative aesthetics and an emerging field o... more Latinofuturism describes a broad range of Latina/o speculative aesthetics and an emerging field of study. In addition to referencing a broad spectrum of speculative texts produced by Chicana/os, Puerto Ricans, Dominican Americans, Cuban Americans, and other Latin American immigrant populations, Latinofuturism also includes innovative cultural productions stemming from hybrid and fluid borderlands spaces such as the US–Mexico border. The umbrella genre of speculative fiction (SF), moreover, indexes the companion genres of science fiction (sci-fi), horror, and fantasy. Instead of approaching these genres separately, SF recognizes the ways in which these genres overlap, blend, and mutually inform one another. As Shelley Streeby notes, the umbrella genre of the speculative is especially useful in analyzing Latinofuturist texts that self-consciously appropriate and blend genres in a manner evocative of the mestizaje animating Latina/o culture. The broader category of SF further enables u...
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. July 2011. Major: American studies. Advisor: Dr. Loui... more University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. July 2011. Major: American studies. Advisor: Dr. Louis G. Mendoza. 1 computer file (PDF); ix, 228 pages.
... to bring to the fore both the specificity of colonial legacies and to connect these legacies ... more ... to bring to the fore both the specificity of colonial legacies and to connect these legacies to larger neo-colonial (trans)national geographies. ... to bring into purview how colonial legacies inhere in the present and collectively enunciate what I term a "spectral materialism": that which ...
Speculative fiction-encompassing both science fiction and fantasy-has emerged as a dynamic field ... more Speculative fiction-encompassing both science fiction and fantasy-has emerged as a dynamic field within Chicana/o and Latina/o studies, producing new critical vocabularies and approaches to topics that include colonialism and modernity, immigration and globalization, race and gender. As the first collection engaging Chicana/o and Latina/o speculative cultural production, Altermundos: Latin@ Speculative Literature, Film, and Popular Culture provides a comprehensive alternative to the view of speculative fiction as a largely white, male, Eurocentric, and heteronormative genre. It features original essays from more than twenty-five scholars as well as interviews, manifestos, short fiction, and new works from Chicana/o and Latina/o artists.
Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 2006
AMERICAN CROSSROADS Edited by Earl Lewis, George Lipsitz, Peggy Pascoe, George Sanchez, and Dana ... more AMERICAN CROSSROADS Edited by Earl Lewis, George Lipsitz, Peggy Pascoe, George Sanchez, and Dana Takagi 1. Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies, by Jose David Saldfvar 2. Trie White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton ...
Juana María Rodríguez's second monograph Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longing... more Juana María Rodríguez's second monograph Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings is itself an " amorous gesture, " (1) welcoming the reader to co-imagine with her more emancipatory and queer forms of sociality, connection, and political activism. Placing queer gestures at the center of her analysis, Rodríguez interrogates the most intimate nooks and crannies of the body politic to flesh out new social bonds and political tactics and to shape law and public policy. In the introduction, Rodríguez braids together an impressive spectrum of theoretical frameworks to enunciate a " theory of queer gesture that works in the interstices between sexual desires and political demands, between discipline and fantasy, between utopian longings and everyday failures. Queer gestures are those that highlight the everyday political, social, and sexual energies that mark our collective will to survive to this day… " (7-8), operating through the hazy and unpredictable interplay of the absence of intelligibility and the excess of signification, between what is intended and what is projected onto those gestures. Shared kinesthetic modes of communication and social connection, queer gestures, according to Rodríguez, are animated by and situated within an invisible mesh of culture and embodied histories of iteration. Never fully legible or complete, queer gestures are always processual, continually reaching for other sexual futures to come. Rodríguez gathers queer gestures from the eclectic archives of discourse, visual culture, performance, and intimate acts. The first two chapters investigate the figurative implications of queer gestures, and the last two chapters attend to corporeal implications. " Who's Your Daddy? Queer Kinship and Perverse Domesticity " concerns how LGBT activist organizations have erased the sexually " perverse " aspects of queer identity to obtain marriage equality and individual rights as citizen-subjects from the U.S.-state. Rodríguez argues that this disavowal of queerness concretizes most visibly in tropes of the sanctity of the family, parents' rights, and the protection of children. Rodríguez examines the juxtaposition between hegemonic representations of family and queer parenthood and the lived realities of queer kinship shaped by race and class. Indicting academic theory such as Lee Edelman's reproductive futurism alongside mainstream representations of queer parenting, including television series The L Word and Modern Family, and academic literature on transracial and transnational adoption, Rodríguez reveals how they erase difference and evoke " normative adulthood and state-sanctioned privileges " (40). Rodríguez consequently calls for gestures of recognition that register
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