This book articulates Jotería Communication Studies as a
subdiscipline and as a praxis for resisting multiple forms of
oppression by focusing on how everyday performances of identity and
culture challenge master narratives of power and control. Although
this book is for scholars, artists, and practitioners from
communication studies, gender and sexuality studies, performance
studies, cultural studies, or even, Latinx and Chicanx studies in
education, sociology, history, literature, media, arts, and
humanities, this book speaks to and with those nonheteronormative
mestizas/os who perform their sexuality and gender in queer practices
and communicative forms—Jotería. As a methodological intervention
into the study of marginalized and subaltern communities, this book
provides research on Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and
Questioning (GBTQ) Chicano and Latino communities from specific
geographic regions of the U.S. Southwest. Utilizing multiple methods,
this book provides a cultural map or political snapshot of a
particular time and place from a particular point of view or location
and generates knowledge that highlights reflexivity, cultural/queer
nuances, and decolonial acts of resistance. Specifically, this book
locates “theories in the flesh” in the borderlands narratives of
Jotería, such as cuentos, pláticas, chismé, testimonio, mitos, and
consejos. These theories of power and resistance create knowledge
about how Jotería make sense of their own difference, how people
interpret their assumed or perceived difference, and ultimately, how
difference is managed as an emancipatory tool toward the goal of queer
of color world making.
Les mer
Narrating Theories of Resistance
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781433164590
Publisert
2021
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Peter Lang
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Forfatter