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

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Copyright © 2010 by the University of Texas Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, 2010 Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to: Permissions University of Texas Press P.O. Box 7819 Austin, TX 78713-7819 www.utexas.edu/utpress/about/bpermission.html The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (R1997) (Permanence of Paper). Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Soto, Sandra K., 1968– Reading Chican@ like a queer : the de-mastery of desire / Sandra K. Soto. — 1st ed. p. cm. — (CMAS history, culture, and society series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-292-72174-6 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. American literature—Mexican American authors— History and criticism. 2. Desire in literature. 3. Sex in literature. 4. Race in literature. 5. Mexican Americans in literature. 6. Mexican Americans—Race identity. I. Title. II. Title: Reading Chicana like a queer. PS153.M4S67 2010 810.9'3580896872073—dc22 2009032144 and in loving memory of Lora Romero (1960–1997), Raúl R. Salinas (1934–2008), & Monique Wittig (1935–2003) ...