Racial immanence : chicanx bodies beyond representation /

Explores the how, why and what of contemporary Chicanx culture, including punk rock, literary fiction, photography, mass graves and digital and experimental installation art. 'Racial Immanence' attempts to unravel a Gordian knot at the center of the study of race and discourse. It seeks to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	López, Marissa K. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : New York University Press, [2019].
Subjects:	American literature > Mexican American authors > History and criticism. Race in literature. Ethnicity in literature. Mexican Americans in literature.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: "Santa Anna's wooden leg and other things about the chicanx body; or, what are we really talking about when we talk about chicanx literature??
Race: Dagoberto Gilb's phenomenology
Face: Cecile Pineda's spectacular blank slate
Place: authenticity, metaphor, and AIDS in Gil Cuadros and Sheila Ortiz Taylor
Waste: the trash fiction of Alejandro Morales, Beatriz Pita, and Rosaura Sánchez
Coda: accordions of abjection: genealogies of chicanx punk.