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Homecoming Queers

Danielson, Marivel T

2009

Overview

Homecoming Queers provides a critical discussion of the multiple strategies used by queer Latina authors and artists in the United States to challenge silence and invisibility within mainstream media, literary canons, and theater spaces. Marivel T. Danielson's analysis reveals the extensive legacy of these cultural artists, including novelists, filmmakers, students and activists, comedians, performers, and playwrights. By clearly discussing the complexities and universalities of ethnic, racial, sexual, gender, and class intersections between queer Chicana and U.S. Latinas, Danielson explores the multiple ways identity shapes and shades creative expression. Weaknesses and gaps are revealed in the treatment of difference as a whole, within dominant and marginalized communities. Spanning multiple genres and forms, and including scholarly theory alongside performances, films, narratives, and testimonials, Homecoming Queers leads readers along a crucial path toward understanding and overcoming the silences that previously existed across these fields.

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Subject: activists / american / American literature / analysis / artists / authors / challenge / Chicana / class / comedians / communities / community / complexities / creative expression / cultural artists / culture / discussion / dominant / ethnic / Ethnic Studies / ethnicity / filmmakers / forms / Gay Studies / gender / gendered violence / genres / hispanic / Hispanic American authors / Hispanic American lesbians / Hispanic American Studies / Hispanic Americans in the performing arts / History and criticism / home / Home in literature / identity / Intellectual life / intersections / language / Language & Literature / Latina / latinas / Latinidad / Latino / legacy / Lesbians' writings, American / LGBTQ / literary canons / LITERARY CRITICISM / General / mainstream media / marginalized / Marivel T. Danielson / media / narratives / novelists / performance films / performers / playwrights / queer / racial / representation / scholarly / sexual / silence / silence invisibility / SOCIAL SCIENCE / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies / SOCIAL SCIENCE / General / Social sciences / SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBT Studies / Gay Studies / Sociology / Space in literature / strategies / students / testimonials / theater / theater spaces / theory / transition / Transnational cultures / treatment / U.S / understanding / United States / violence / weaknesses / Women authors
• ISBN: 0813548373, 9780813548371, 9780813545714, 0813545714, 0813545722, 9780813545721