Technofuturos Critical Interventions in Latina/o Studies

by Mirabal, Nancy Raquel; Laó-Montes, Agustin; la Campa, Roman de; Guidotti-Hernández, Nicole; Ochoa, Marcia; Arroyo, Jossiana; Cespedes, Karina; Arias, Arturo; Carrillo, Teresa; Paredes, Mari; Marquez, Erica; Beliso, Aisha; Renta, Priscilla; Sánchez, Albert

• ISBN13: 9780739108956
• ISBN10: 0739108956
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-04-19
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Technofuturos challenges conventional notions of Latina/o identities, histories, and cultures by historicizing and differentiating the multiple discourses of Latinidad.

Table of Contents

Introduction : historical futures, globality, and writing self : an introduction to technofuturos	p. 1
Latin, Latino, American : split states and global imaginaries	p. 31
Becoming a man in Yndias : the mediations of Catalina de Erauso, the lieutenant nun	p. 53
Reading violence, making Chicana subjectivities	p. 77
Talking across Latinidades : disidentificatory feminism in El Mundo Zurdo	p. 101
Afro-Latinidades : bridging blackness and Latinidad	p. 117
Technologies : transculturations of race, gender, and ethnicity in Arturo A. Schomburg's masonic writings	p. 141
Central American diasporas : transnational gangs and the transformation of Latino identity in the United States	p. 173
The best of care : Latinas as transnational mothers and caregivers	p. 191
Transmigrant sexualities : the closet and other tales by Colombian gay immigrants in New York City	p. 213
Flexible technologies of subjectivity : mobility across the Americas	p. 233
Segmentation, migration, and reciprocities : cultural policy and the growth of Spanish-language media in the United States	p. 255
Salsa dance performance : Latina/o history in motion	p. 269
An AIDS testimonial : it's a broken record/Ese Disco Se Rayo	p. 297
Guayaquilena (in)documentada : one-way ticket to my diaspora(s) : a testimonio	p. 311
Accent generacion : technological choice and the Spanish option in post-9/11 America	p. 335
A bridge to brown : politics and theory of Latin@ reading	p. 359
Mambo no. 5 : montage of the other woman	p. 381
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