Description
Book Synopsis Using interdisciplinary performance studies and cultural studies frameworks, Laura G. Gutiérrez examines the cultural representation of queer sexuality in the contemporary cultural production of Mexican female and Chicana performance and visual artists. In particular, she locates the analytical lenses of feminist theory and queer theory in a central position to interrogate Mexican female dissident sexualities in transnational public culture.
This is the first book-length study to wed performance studies and queer theory in examining the performative/performance work of important contemporary Mexicana and Chicana cultural workers. It proposes that the creations of several important artists—Chicana visual artist Alma López; the Mexican political cabareteras Astrid Hadad, Jesusa Rodríguez, Liliana Felipe, and Regina Orozco; the Chicana performance artist Nao Bustamante; and the Mexican video artist Ximena Cuevas—unsettle heterosexual nat
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Unsettling Comforts: Notes on Language, Politics, and Sex/Sexuality in a Transnational Context
- Part One. Reimagining the Archives of Femininity and Sexuality
- Chapter 1. Sexing Guadalupe in Transnational Double Crossings
- Chapter 2. Gender Parody, Political Satire, and Postmodern Rancheras: Astrid Hadad's "Heavy Nopal" Aesthetics
- Chapter 3. Fue en un cabaret: Nation, Melodrama, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Mexican Performance
- Part Two. Chicana and Mexicana Queer Performative Interventions
- Chapter 4. Nao Bustamante's "Bad-Girl" Aesthetics
- Chapter 5. Ximena Cuevas's Critical Collages
- Coda. Transtortilleras: Political Cabaret in the Twenty-first Century
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
