Reading Chican@ Like a Queer: The De-Mastery of Desire

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Acosta, Oscar Zeta, 58 Acosta-Belén, Edna, 123 Adorno, Theodor, 101–102, 109, 110, 146n27 adultery, 129n14 affirmative action, 10, 13, 25, 39, 40, 42–46, 133n8 African Americans, 34, 122, 131n13 agency: Castillo and Chicana/mestiza sexual agency, 63, 69, 70; Hertz on “pathos of uncertain agency,” 28; and Moraga, 23–24, 27–28 AIDS, 55–57, 84 Alarcón, Norma: on Castillo, 66, 70, 71, 138n22; on Chicano “ethnonationalism ,” 124; as feminist scholar, 10, 88; on Rodriguez, 41, 47, 48 Alemán, Jesse, 142n11 All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave (Smith), 21 Althusser, Louis Pierre, 114, 117 Americas Review, 135n1 Anchor Books, 138n20, 139n26 Andar, El, 64–65 Anzaldúa, Gloria: Borderlands/La Frontera by, 21, 63–64, 66–67; Chicana theory of, 95–96; and chicanismo, 140n3; lesbian identity of, 9, 21, 29–30; and racialized sexuality generally, 10 Arenas, Reinaldo, 123–124 Arte Público Press, 59, 97, 135–136nn3–4, 146n30 assimilation: of Moraga’s brother, 28, 29, 30; Rodriguez’s assimilationist politics , 43–49, 133n8 Austin, J. L., 31–32 Aztlán, 13, 35, 62, 63, 65–66, 88. See also Nation of Aztlán Bambara, Toni Cade, 19 Barthes, Roland, 101, 144n21, 145n25 Bauman, Richard, 142n10 Benjamin, Walter, 109 Bergman, David, 49 Berlant, Lauren, 45, 46, 49, 53, 133– 134nn10–11 Between Two Worlds (Paredes), 143n14 bilingual education, 10, 39, 40, 42, 43–46, 133nn7–8 Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 138n20, 139n26 Binder, Wolfgang, 136n9 borderlands, 63–64, 123–124, 136n10 Borderlands/La Frontera (Anzaldúa), 21, 63–64, 66–67 Bowden, Charles, 137n14 Brett, Philip, 102–103 Brown: The Last Discovery of America (Rodriguez ), 39 Bruce-Novoa, Juan, 12, 62, 87–88, 96, 130n18 Callas, Maria, 5 Cantú, Norma Elia, 130n7 164 INDEX Castillo, Ana: American Book Award for, 138n20; border crossings and travel in works by, 63; Chicago upbringing of, 136n9; and Chicana/mestiza sexual agency, 63, 69, 70; on Chicana selflove , 68, 75, 81, 83, 136n7; on Conquest of Mexico, 59; dissertation by, 137n17; feminist and sex-positive writings by, 88; and “Gypsy” culture, 13, 64–65, 68, 69, 74, 75, 77, 80–86, 136n11; and mestizaje, 13, 64–69, 76, 79–82, 85, 86; mestizo antihero of Sapogonia, 77–82, 114; and narrators and multiple points of view in Sapogonia, 78; and racialized sexuality, 62–63; and transcultural forms of belonging and desire, 13, 63, 64–65; travel by, 136n9; on urban malaise and cultural displacement, 13; and virgen/chingada (virgin/whore) sexual framework, 10, 69 —works: Invitation, 59–62, 136n4, 136nn7–8; Massacre of the Dreamers, 67–68, 136n8, 137n17; Mixquiahuala Letters, 62–63, 68–76, 80, 81, 83, 84, 85, 138nn20–24; My Father Was a Toltec and Selected Poems, 136n7; Otro Canto, 62; Peel My Love Like an Onion, 59, 62–63, 68, 81, 83–85, 136–137nn11–13, 139– 140nn30–31; Sapogonia, 62–63, 68–69, 76–82, 83, 85, 114, 139nn26–29; Women Are Not Roses, 136n4 Catholic church, 32, 35–36, 79 Chabram-Dernersesian, Angie, 3, 10, 122, 137n18, 147n1 Chican@, use of “@” in term, 2–3, 127n2 Chican@ literature, criteria for, 12, 62, 87–88 Chicana/o Studies: backlash against, 124; and Chican@/Anglo binary, 122–123; and Chicana feminism, 11–12; García’s critique of, 11–12, 124, 140n2; malecentered nature of Chicano Studies, 96; and Paredes, 141n6; Paredes’s participation in the founding of, 10, 87, 89–92, 96, 124–125; and “El Plan de Santa Bárbara,” 125, 126, 140n1; and queer theory, 57–58; relationship between Latin@ Studies and, 122–124; R. A. Rodríguez on values of, 134n13; and Richard Rodriguez, 48 chicanismo, 88, 140n1, 140n3. See also movimiento chicano, el Chicano, masculine, heterosexual framework for term, 57–58 Chicano “ethnonationalism,” 124 Chicano identity politics, 39–40, 47 Chicano Narrative (Saldívar), 92 chingada (fucked one), 66, 68 chingaderas (violent acts), 72 chingón (macho), 68, 72 Chow, Rey, 3 Cid, El, 98, 99, 102, 104, 143n16, 145n22 Cid, El (film), 145n22 Clinton, Bill, 132n3 conjunto music, 143n17 Connerly, Ward, 124 Conquest of Mexico and conquistadores, 10, 59, 66, 79, 86, 98, 104 conquest triangle, 7 “Con Su Pluma en Su Mano” (Hinojosa), 91–92 Corrido de Gregorio Cortez, El, 90, 92–97 corrido masculinity, 94–97, 103–105, 111, 114 corridos, 88, 90–98, 103–104, 112, 114, 117, 141n8, 142nn10–11, 143n16 Cortázar, Julio, 138n22 Cortés, Hernán, 7, 66...