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- Born of Resistance: Cara a Cara Encounters with Chicana/o Visual Culture
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: University of Arizona Press
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This collection of essays interrogates the most contested social, political, and aesthetic concept in Chicana/o cultural studies—resistance.
If Chicana/o culture was born of resistance amid assimilation and nationalistic forces, how has it evolved into the twenty-first century? This groundbreaking volume redresses the central idea of resistance in Chicana/o visual cultural expression through nine clustered discussions, each coordinating scholarly, critical, curatorial, and historical contextualizations alongside artist statements and interviews. Landmark artistic works—illustrations, paintings, sculpture, photography, film, and television—anchor each section. Contributors include David Avalos, Mel Casas, Ester Hernández, Nicholas Herrera, Luis Jiménez, Ellen Landis, Yolanda López, Richard Lou, Delilah Montoya, Laura Pérez, Lourdes Portillo, Luis Tapia, Chuy Treviño, Willie Varela, Kathy Vargas, René Yañez, Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, and more. Cara a cara, face-to-face, encounters across the collection reveal the varied richness of resistant strategies, movidas, as they position crucial terms of debate surrounding resistance, including subversion, oppression, affirmation, and identification.
The essays in the collection represent a wide array of perspectives on Chicana/o visual culture. Editors Scott L. Baugh and Víctor A. Sorell have curated a dialog among the many voices, creating an important new volume that redefines the role of resistance in Chicana/o visual arts and cultural expression.
If Chicana/o culture was born of resistance amid assimilation and nationalistic forces, how has it evolved into the twenty-first century? This groundbreaking volume redresses the central idea of resistance in Chicana/o visual cultural expression through nine clustered discussions, each coordinating scholarly, critical, curatorial, and historical contextualizations alongside artist statements and interviews. Landmark artistic works—illustrations, paintings, sculpture, photography, film, and television—anchor each section. Contributors include David Avalos, Mel Casas, Ester Hernández, Nicholas Herrera, Luis Jiménez, Ellen Landis, Yolanda López, Richard Lou, Delilah Montoya, Laura Pérez, Lourdes Portillo, Luis Tapia, Chuy Treviño, Willie Varela, Kathy Vargas, René Yañez, Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, and more. Cara a cara, face-to-face, encounters across the collection reveal the varied richness of resistant strategies, movidas, as they position crucial terms of debate surrounding resistance, including subversion, oppression, affirmation, and identification.
The essays in the collection represent a wide array of perspectives on Chicana/o visual culture. Editors Scott L. Baugh and Víctor A. Sorell have curated a dialog among the many voices, creating an important new volume that redefines the role of resistance in Chicana/o visual arts and cultural expression.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xii
- Part I
- Part II
- San Diego Donkey Cart Reconsidered
- pp. 69-78
- Through The Border Door
- pp. 96-102
- Public Interventions and Social Disruptions
- pp. 103-110
- Part III
- Thoughts on Dos Pedros sin Llaves
- pp. 112-119
- Thoughts on St. Peter Is Imprisoned
- pp. 120-125
- Part IV
- From Man on Fire
- pp. 136-137
- Editorial Note
- pp. 138-139
- Rearing Mustang, Razing Mesteño
- pp. 140-149
- Part V
- Brown Paper Report
- pp. 173-174
- A Contingency Factor
- pp. 175-176
- Part VI
- Revisiting My Alamo
- pp. 196-213
- From “Many Wests”
- pp. 221-223
- Part VII
- In This Burning World, Willie Varela Resists
- pp. 246-251
- Part VIII
- The Eye of Pain/El Ojo del Dolor
- pp. 276-281
- Part IX
- Editors and Contributors
- pp. 316-335
Additional Information
ISBN
9780816532223
Related ISBN(s)
9780816525829
MARC Record
OCLC
927446609
Pages
352
Launched on MUSE
2015-11-06
Language
English
Open Access
No