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Book SynopsisA contemplative exploration of cultural representations of Mexican American fathers in contemporary media.
Trade ReviewFatherhood in the Borderlands is a true joy to read--a page turner! The autoethnographic, epistemic, and creative space of the author’s storytelling; the theorizing; and the deep and engaged readings of key film and literary texts in the Chicanx borderlands pantheon of creative/cultural production are all beautifully realized. Perez’s book will be a huge hit. -- Arturo J. Aldama, University of Colorado Boulder, author of Disrupting Savagism: Intersecting Chicana/o, Mexican Immigrant, and Native American Struggles for Representation
This book is personal and necessary. Domino Perez makes a disrupting gesture with
Fatherhood in the Borderlands that is deliberate and thoughtful. It is a bold decision to make it a many-faceted work—there is no other book like Perez’s, with its amalgam of beautiful insights and tremendous depth. -- Christopher González, Southern Methodist University, author of Permissible Narratives: The Promise of Latino/a Literature
Table of Contents
- Preface: The Slow Lowdown
- Introduction: A Slow Approach to Fathers and Other Fictions
- Part I. Sourcing Authority
- Film: Ancianos not Abuelos: Making Space and Mediating Male Power
- Personal Narrative: “No, I Am Your Father”
- Literature: Fathers and Racialized Masculinities in Luis Alberto Urrea’s In Search of Snow
- Part II. Instrumentalizing Indigeneity
- Personal Narrative: Nobody Ever Said We Were Aztecs
- Film: Fatherhood, Chicanismo, and the Cultural Politics of Healing in La Mission
- Literature: New Tribalism and Chicana/o Indigeneity in the Work of Gloria Anzaldúa
- Part III. Fantasmas and Fronteras
- Literature: Fathers, Sons, and Other (Short) Fictions
- Film: Meta and Mutant Fathers
- Personal Narrative: Family Fictions and Other Lies about the Truth
- Conclusion: Fathers and Futurity
- Parting Shot
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Works Cited and Consulted
- Index
