Brown on Brown: Chicano/a Representations of Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity

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Index Abelove, Henry, 17 Acosta, Oscar “Zeta,” 54, 74, 95 activo/pasivo, 77–79, 81, 115, 118, 128– 131, 135 aesthetics, definition of, 148 “Again, Like Before” (Castillo), 102–103 AIDS/HIV, 64, 75, 86, 105, 107–111, 116 Alarcón, Francisco X., 3, 4, 21, 23 Alarcón, Norma, 22, 90 Aldama, Arturo J., 4, 22 Aldama, Frederick Luis, 92, 112, 155n.2 Alfaro, Luis, 21, 23 Allende, Isabel, 91, 94 Alter, Robert, 138 Alurista, 48 American Me: beginning of, 127–128; critics on, 119–120, 122, 134 –135; death scenes in, 128, 129, 134; drugs in, 136; flower motif in, 133–134; Julie in, 115, 116, 131, 133, 136; machismo in, 116 – 118, 128, 135; origin of title of, 157n.1; plot of, 114 –118; and prison film genre, 122–125; race in, 129–130; rape scenes in, 115–118, 122, 128, 129, 131, 134; release of, 114; Santana’s male lovers in, 129–131; as savior narrative, 131–133; significance of, 20; storytelling role of Santana in, 131–134 Americas Review, 106 Amparo Escandón, María, 94 Anaya, Rudolfo, 48, 73–74, 95, 156n.1 Andes, Alison, 122 anti-foundationalism, 25–29 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 4, 21, 22, 50, 64, 74, 89, 90, 156n.1 “Araby” ( Joyce), 102 Arau, Alfonso, 121 Argentina, 42, 43 Arías, Ron, 73–74, 95 Arredondo, Gabriela F., 23 Artaud, Antonin, 25 Arteaga, Alfred, 22 Arte Público Press, 91, 92, 113, 150n.1 Arteta, Miguel, 4 Asco, 143 Austin, J. L., 38–39, 40, 153–154n.13 Aztec myths, 99–100, 133, 134 Aztlán, 22, 48, 157n.2 Babenco, Hector, 4 Babuscio, Jack, 85 Baker, Samuel, 91, 102 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 61 Baldwin, James, 17, 49, 50 Barnes, Djuna, 3, 112 Barrio, Raymond, 156n.1 Barthes, Roland, 56, 75, 151n.4 Bataille, Georges, 25 Baudelaire, Charles, 25 behiques, 132, 133 Benítez, Sandra, 94 Bersani, Leo, 24, 151n.3 Bhabha, Homi, 23 Bildungsroman, 54, 57– 60 Birken, Laurence, 51–52 bisexuality. See queer theory; sexuality 09-T3393-IX 6/22/05 1:57 PM Page 169 Bishop, Elizabeth, 17 Blanchot, Maurice, 25 Blood In Blood Out: Bound by Honor, 123–124 Bloomfield, Leonard, 153n.13 Bodies and Souls (Rechy), 155n.6 body, 56, 61, 62– 63, 105, 106, 110 Boorman, John, 126 Borch-Jacobsen, Mikkel, 36 –37 Borderlands/La Frontera (Anzaldúa), 22, 90 borderland studies, 22–23, 24, 137–140, 146 –148. See also specific scholars Bowles, Paul, 17 Brady, Mary Pat, 4, 23, 90, 92 Brown, Monica, 22 Brown (Rodriguez), 21, 45–46 Bruce-Novoa, Juan, 4, 49–51, 53, 57, 73, 107 Brücke, Ernst, 153n.11 Burroughs, William S., 3, 17 Bush, George W., 43 Butler, Judith, 38, 39–40 Cáliz-Montoro, Carmen, 90 Candelaria, Cordelia, 90 Caramelo (Cisneros), 91 Castillo, Ana: critics on, 95, 100, 103, 104; magical realism of, 94 –95; mainstream visibility of, 64, 89, 90 –91, 93, 112; narrative techniques of, 95, 100, 104, 113; significance of, 19–20, 111– 113, 148 —works: Loverboys, 20, 91, 93, 100 –103, 113; The Mixquiahuala Letters, 90 – 91; Peel My Love Like an Onion, 19– 20, 93, 94, 103–106, 113; Sapagonia: A Novel in 3/8, 91; So Far from God, 19–20, 91, 93, 94 –100, 113 Castillo, Debra, 47, 57, 64, 67 Catholicism, 57–59, 66 – 69, 72, 79– 80, 98 Celan, Paul, 1 Cervantes, Lorna Dee, 89 Chabram, Angie, 21, 90 Chamberlain, Lesley, 35 Chandler, Raymond, 74 Chávez, Cesar, 17, 43 Chávez, Denise, 64, 89, 91, 93, 113, 156n.2 Chávez, John, 50 Chávez-Silverman, Susana, 4 Chicago, 104 –106 Chicanas: education of, 89; Hollywood film images of, 120 –122; and mestiza consciousness, 22, 90, 94; publishing industry and Chicana writers, 90 – 93, 112; stereotypes of, 74, 120; and Xicana feminist movement, 89–90, 113, 156n.1 Chicano/a cinema, 4, 120 –122, 128 Chicano/a writers. See specific writers Chomsky, Noam, 144, 149n.5 Christian, Karen, 52, 107 chueco (transvestite), 23, 103, 106 chusmaría (parodic), 38 cinema. See American Me; films; and other specific films and film directors Cisneros, Sandra, 64, 89, 91, 92, 93, 156n.2 City of Night (Rechy), 47, 49, 53, 155n.1 class, 16 –18, 110 –111 Coachella (Ortiz Taylor), 20, 93–94, 106 –111, 113 Condillac, Etienne Bonnot de, 25 confluencia, 51, 107 constative/performative binary hypothesis , 38–39 Corpi, Lucha, 74, 89, 92 Cortázar, Julio, 19, 48, 61 “Craw...