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: 9780739125786
• ISBN10: 0739125788
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-11-13
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Technofuturos offers a critical and innovative exploration of the forms of representation found in Latina/o studies. The editors, Nancy Raquel Mirabal and Agustin Lao-Montes, challenge conventional notions of Latina/o identities, histories, and cultures by historicizing and differentiating the multiple discourses of Latinidad. The essays examine the temporality and spatiality of socio-historical processes, the multiple and varied constellations of power, and the complicated geographies of desire. By analyzing the discursive, performative, and aesthetic dimensions of knowledge, this book contests and reconstructs Latina/o studies. Technofuturos is a captivating and sophisticated read that will appeal to scholars of Latina/o studies and those interested in postcolonial critique. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Historical Futures, Globality, and Writing Self: An Introduction to Technofuturos	p. 1
Historical Futures
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
Globality
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
Writing Self
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
Index	p. 403
About the Contributors	p. 415
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