Performing La Mestiza

Performing La Mestiza
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 300
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781351819442
ISBN-13 : 1351819445
Rating : 4/5 (445 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Performing La Mestiza by : Ellen M. Gil-Gomez

Download or read book Performing La Mestiza written by Ellen M. Gil-Gomez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 2000, explores the intersections of race, gender and gay identities in writings by contemporary American lesbians of colour in order to show how this subject is sometimes ignored, sometimes brutalised and is very rarely able to survive on her own terms by constructing her own identity acts of cultural revision. The author places the lesbian of colour in the context of current identity theories showing the ever-present blind spots within current theoretical paradigms, she then reads a variety of writings by lesbians of colour describing the possibilities that exist for these subjects in textual and social realities. The author shows the varied communities that threaten the existence of this subject, as well as the limits that dictate the subject's ability to create her self. By bridging Judith Butler's Gender Trouble and Gloria Anzaldua's New Mestiza she describes how lesbians of colour can survive numerous sites of hostility by constructing a positive identity within her home community through revising cultural traditions and history. After considering the power of these acts of revision, the author calls for the empowered performance of the mestiza state - the state of contradiction wherein the lesbian of colour finds herself. This book is the first to analyse creative and theoretical works by African American, Asian American, Latina and Native American communities and writers through the lens of lesbian studies. Authors include recognised figures such as Audre Lorde, Ana Castillo and Paula Gunn Allen, as well as lesser known authors like Best Brant, Natashia Lopez and Willyce Kim. It provides a corrective to Butler's empowering but essentially white vision of performing identity, so that lesbians of colour can claim their identities and remain tied to their own cultural traditions. Ultimately, the author asks for a reconsideration of the value of identity studies that articulate monolithic identities and whose analyses perpetuate what they seek to disrupt.


Performing La Mestiza Related Books

Performing La Mestiza
Language: en
Pages: 300
Authors: Ellen M. Gil-Gomez
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-06 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book, first published in 2000, explores the intersections of race, gender and gay identities in writings by contemporary American lesbians of colour in ord
Romancing the Margins?
Language: en
Pages: 160
Authors: Gabriele Griffin
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Psychology Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

'Romancing the Margins'?: Lesbian Writing in the 1990s explores the range of critical responses to lesbian writing on issues of gender, sexuality, and lesbian i
Routledge Library Editions: Literature and Sexuality
Language: en
Pages: 1946
Authors: Various Authors
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-02-25 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This set brings together a collection of classic out-of-print works that offer some surprising new takes on the theme of sexuality in literature. Whether examin
Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies
Language: en
Pages: 749
Authors: Timothy Murphy
Categories: Reference
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-18 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies surveys the field in some 470 entries on individuals (Adrienne Rich); arts and cultural studies (Dance); ethics, r
Latina Lesbian Writers and Artists
Language: en
Pages: 148
Authors: Maria Dolores Costa
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-06 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Explore a little-known side of the lesbian artistic world! With this book, you’ll explore the work of the most significant contemporary Latina lesbian writers