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Contents List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Part I The Danza and the Plena: Racializing Women, Feminizing Music 1 A Literary Prelude 3 Chapter 1 A White Lady Called the Danza 8 Chapter 2 A Sensual Mulatta Called the Plena 27 Chapter 3 Desiring the Racial Other: Rosario Ferré’s Feminist Reconstructions of Danza and Plena 45 Part II The Plural Sites of Salsa 63 A Postmodern Preface 65 Chapter 4 Situating Salsa 69 Chapter 5 Ideological Negotiations: Between Hegemony and Resistance 83 Chapter 6 Cultural (Mis)Translations and Crossover Nightmares 104 Part III Dissonant Melodies: Singing Gender, Desire, and Conflict 119 Theoretical Pretexts: Listening (as) Woman 121 Chapter 7 Woman as Absence: Hetero(homo)sexual Desire in the Bolero 125 Chapter 8 Patriarchal Synecdoches: Of Women’s Butts and Feminist Rebuttals 142 Chapter 9 Singing the Gender Wars 154 Chapter 10 Singing Female Subjectivities 172 Part IV Así Somos, Así Son: Rewriting Salsa 185 Listening to the Listeners: An Introduction 187 Chapter 11 Así Son: Constructing Woman 191 Chapter 12 Así Somos: Rewriting Patriarchy 219 Contents / vii Afterword 239 Notes 247 Index of Songs and Recordings 281 General Index 283 Contents / viii ...