{"product_id":"postborderlandia-chicana-literature-and-gender-variant-critique-9780813594521","title":"PostBorderlandia  Chicana Literature and Gender","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePost-Borderlandia\u003c\/i\u003e examines why gender variance is such a core theme in contemporary Chicana and Chicanx narratives. Cuevas explores how a new generation of Chicanx writers, performers, and filmmakers are drawing on a rich tradition of challenging heteropatriarchal norms to offer new directions for Chicana feminist theory.   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Cuevas’s invigorating appraisal and persuasive readings of under-examined yet pivotal texts and writers, refreshing refusal to adhere to the sex\/gender binary, and stunning ability to link history with critical theory breathes new life into Chicano\/a literary and queer studies.\" -- Richard T. Rodríguez * author of Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano\/a Cultural Politics *\u003cbr\u003e\"Building on and moving beyond the work of Gloria Anzaldua, \u003ci\u003ePost-Borderlandia\u003c\/i\u003e interrogates the queer Chicana literary archive through the lens of gender variant critique. Arguing that gender non-conformity shapes understandings of queerness in Chicanx literary texts, this original and provocative book theorizes a movement beyond the binaries of white lesbianism and heteronormative Chicanidad, examining the normative projects of borderlands theory and queer of color critique to claim post-borderlandia as a site where gender variance opens up new potentialities for Chicanx subjectivity. A beautifully written, challenging, and ground-breaking text.\" -- Chandra Talpade Mohanty * author of Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity *\u003cbr\u003e\"Spring Arts 2018 Books: Fact, fiction and beyond\" by Will Owen * Washington Blade *\u003cbr\u003e\"New Scholarly Books: Weekly Book List, May 25, 2018\" by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePost-Borderlandia \u003c\/i\u003eindeed creates an archive showing that gender variance is central to Chicana literature. Further, it shows that such intersectional non-normativity is, in the words of Rosario Castellanos quoted by Cuevas, “Otro modo de ser humano y libre” ‘Another way of being human and free’\" * Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePost-Borderlandia\u003c\/i\u003e is a necessary read for scholars of both Latinx literature and queer\/trans studies, offering exciting new takes on classic texts and drawing attention to lesser-known cultural artifacts.\" * MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePost-Borderlandia\u003c\/i\u003e is a valuable book for scholars in the fields of Hispanic and Chicanx cultures and those who study gender and queer theory; this work combines all in a way that is both insightful and fascinating for the reader....Cuevas takes Anzaldua’s work and expands upon it beautifully, bringing her ground-breaking work of the 1980s into a more contemporary context that will be of interest to many scholars.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Hispanic Research Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\"Cuevas makes a critical intervention into the body of scholarship concerning Chicana\/o\/x LBGTQ literature....Readers will certainly find value in Cuevas’s analytical acumen [and] some may wonder which other Chicanx texts could have been brought under this lens: how might a gender variant critique be marshalled to examine Chicanx and non-Chicanx characters and open new possibilities within Chicana\/o\/x cultural productions? In this way, Cuevas has done the significant work of illuminating what had long been ignored.\" * Feministas Unidas *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Gender Variance and the Post-Borderlands\u003cbr\u003e 1          Chicana Masculinities\u003cbr\u003e 2          Ambiguous Chicanx Bodies\u003cbr\u003e 3          Transing Chicanidad\u003cbr\u003e 4          Brokeback Rancho\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: From a Long Line of Marimachas\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"MW - Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49958523208023,"sku":"9780813594521","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813594521.jpg?v=1738994181","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/postborderlandia-chicana-literature-and-gender-variant-critique-9780813594521","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}