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Queering the border : essays
- Title
- Queering the border : essays / Emma Pérez.
- Author
- Pérez, Emma, 1954-
- Publication
- Houston, TX : Arte Público Press, [2023]
- ©2023
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Details
- Description
- xi, 163 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- ""You will never know how it feels to have brown skin and a Mexican name. You will never know what it is like to watch your mother struggle with white words." In this collection of prose pieces, author and scholar Emma Pérez explores the intersection of race, class, gender and sexuality. A Chicanx queer lesbian "who honors my mother and her plight within patriarchal institutions" that limit women's opportunities, Pérez writes about issues that have impacted her Tejano family for generations, including sexual politics and power relations between Anglo and Hispanic men. A historian by training, her work aims to decolonize the Southwest by uncovering voices from the past that validate multiple experiences. Essays reveal the influence of Gloria Anzaldúa's scholarship in her personal and academic lives; recount the controversy surrounding artist Alma Lopez's digital print, "Our Lady," in which the Virgin of Guadalupe appears in a provocative bikini; and evaluate interviews with 25 LGBTQ people in the El Paso/Ciudad Juárez area to expose life on the border as a queer of color. This collection also includes short fiction and an epistolary love poem to the first feminist of the Americas, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, or in this case, Sor Juanx. Bringing together the work of a noted Chicanx writer and academic, this volume reinforces the body of work by LGBTQ people of color dealing with racism and sexism, conquest and colonization, power and privilege, all with a particular emphasis on the Southwest borderlands." -- Back cover.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Essays.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-162).
- Call Number
- JFD 23-1523
- ISBN
- 9781558859586
- 1558859586
- OCLC
- 1331706015
- Author
- Pérez, Emma, 1954- author.
- Title
- Queering the border : essays / Emma Pérez.
- Publisher
- Houston, TX : Arte Público Press, [2023]
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-162).
- Research Call Number
- JFD 23-1523