Marci R McMahon

Domestic Negotiations

Gender, Nation, and Self-Fashioning in US Mexicana and Chicana Literature and Art

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores how US Mexicana and Chicana authors and artists across different historical periods and regions use domestic space to actively claim their own histories. Through "negotiation” and "self-fashioning”, Marci R. McMahon demonstrates how the sites of domesticity are used to engage the many political and recurring debates about race, gender, and immigration affecting Mexicanas and Chicanas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780813560946
• ISBN-10: 0813560942
• Artikelnr.: 38428053

Autorenporträt

MARCI R. McMAHON is an assistant professor in the English department at the University of Texas, Pan American.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
A Note on Terminology
Introduction
Part I. Domestic Power
1. The Chili Queens of San Antonio: Challenging Domestication through
Street Vending and Fashion
2. Claiming Domestic Space in the US-Mexico Borderlands: Jovita González
and Eve Raleigh's Caballero and Cleofas Jaramillo's Romance of a Little
Village Girl
3. Domestic Power across Borders: Fabiola Cabeza de Baca's Home Economics
Work in New Mexico and Mexico
Part II. Domesticana
4. Postnationalist and Domesticana Strategies: Sandra Cisneros's The House
on Mango Street and Carmen Lomas Garza's Familias
5. Patssi Valdez's "A Room of One's Own": Self-Fashioning, Glamour, and
Domesticity in the Museum and Hollywood
6. Redirecting Chicana/Latina Representation: Diane Rodríguez's Performance
and Staging of the Domestic
Epilogue: Denaturalizing the Domestic
Notes
References
Index