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Acknowledgments ix 1 Queering Home: Desire Meets Theory Meets Art 1 2 Speaking Selves: Language and Identity in Transition 10 3 Moving Violations: Performing the Limits of Representation in Marga Gomez’s jaywalker 41 4 The Birdy and the Bees: Queer Chicana Girlhood in Carla Trujillo’s What Night Brings 68 5 Complicating Community: Terri de la Peña, Cristina Serna, Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Ela Troyano, and Carmelita Tropicana 92 6 Performing the Erotics of Home: Monica Palacios, Marga Gomez, and Carmelita Tropicana 121 7 Dancing with Devils: Gendered Violence in Novels by Emma Pérez and Achy Obejas 144 8 Our Art Is Our Weapon: Women of Color Transforming Academia 168 Notes 191 Bibliography 201 Index 211 CONTENTS vii ...