Global Mexican Cultural Productions

by Blanco-Cano, Rosana; Urquijo-Ruiz, Rita E. E.

• ISBN13: 9780230120471
• ISBN10: 0230120474
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-10-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This co-edited volume is the first book to incorporate a transdisciplinary approach that examines transnational Mexican cultural productions through a variety of analytical perspectives. The authors propose a multilayered reading of contemporary transnational cultural manifestations in which it is possible to recognize challenges and cultural strategies that transnational Mexican communities conceive in order to claim cultural, political and social agency. The essays, interviews, and poetry included in this volume elaborate on the creation of new forms of citizenship that reshape the long history of exclusion that has marked the experience of these particular groups not only in the United States but also in what is geo-politically defined as Mexico.

Author Biography

Rosana Blanco-Cano is an assistant professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and co-director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Trinity University. She has published several articles in the areas of (trans)national Mexican cultural studies, gender and performance studies, Latin American cinema, and Spanish cinema. She is co-author of the book 100 Years of Spanish Cinema (2008) and author of Cuerpos disidentes del Mxico imaginado: Cultura, gnero, etniay nacin ms all del proyecto posrevolucionario (2010). She received her PhD from Tulane University. Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz is an associate professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Trinity University. She is a Mexicana/Chicana from Sonora who grew up in Southern California. Her areas of interest are Mexican and Chicana/o literatures and cultures, gender and sexuality studies, and theater and performance studies. Her work has been published in Nerter (Spain), Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of MALCS, Ollantay Theater Magazine, and other texts. Her first solo-authored book is Wild Tongues: Transnational Mexican Popular Culture (2011).

Table of Contents

Introduction:  Transnational Transgressions: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Global Mexican Cultural Productions * Rosana Blanco-Cano and Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz * Section I: And What are Transnational Mexican Cultures?--Javier Durán, Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez, and Ellie Hernández * Section II: Voices and Literatures en las Fronteras--Norma E. Cantú and María Socorro Tabuenca Córdoba * Section III: Performing Borders: De Aquí y de Allá--Laura G. Gutiérrez, Marivel Danielson, and Deborah Parédez * Section IV: De Imágenes y Sueños: Transnational Border Visual Cultures--Tomás Ybarra-Frausto and Norma Iglesias Prieto * Section V: Young Voices at the Crossroads: Artistic and Scholarly Interventions--Analicia Sotelo, Roxana J. Rojas, Miguel Guerra * Section VI: Interviews with Transnational Mexican Artists--Rosina Conde and Yolanda Cruz