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Performing Mexicanidad : vendidas y cabareteras on the transnational stage /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gutierrez, Laura G., 1968-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas, 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Chicana matters series.
Subjects:
Sex in the performing arts > Mexico.
Lesbians in the performing arts > Mexico.
Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) > Social aspects > Mexico.
Women entertainers > Mexico.
Women performance artists > Mexico.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Unsettling comforts : notes on language, politics, and sex/sexuality in a transnational context
  • Reimagining the archives of femininity and sexuality. Sexing Guadalupe in transnational double crossings
  • Gender parody, political satire, and postmodern rancheras : Astrid Hadad's "heavy nopal" aesthetics
  • Fue en un cabaret : nation, melodrama, gender, and sexuality in contemporary Mexican performance
  • Chicana and Mexicana queer performative interventions. Nao Bustamante's "bad-girl" aesthetics
  • Ximena Cuevas's critical collages
  • Transtortilleras : political cabaret in the twenty-first century.