Technofuturos: Critical Interventions in Latina/o Studies

Nancy Raquel Mirabal; Agustin Laó-Montes

doi:10.5771/9780739161593

Summary

Technofuturos offers a critical and innovative exploration of the forms of representation found in Latina/o studies. The editors, Nancy Raquel Mirabal and Agustin La—Montes, challenge conventional notions of Latina/o identities, histories, and cultures by historicizing and differentiating the multiple discourses of Latinidad. The essays examine the temporality and spatiality of socio-historical processes, the multiple and varied constellations of power, and the complicated geographies of desire. By analyzing the discursive, performative, and aesthetic dimensions of knowledge, this book contests and reconstructs Latina/o studies. Technofuturos is a captivating and sophisticated read that will appeal to scholars of Latina/o studies and those interested in postcolonial critique.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2007
Copyright Year: 2007
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7391-0895-6
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7391-6159-3
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 420
Product Type: Edited Book

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction: Historical Futures, Globality, and Writing Self: An Introduction to Technofuturos No access Pages 1 - 28
1. 1: Latin, Latino, American: Split States and Global Imaginaries No access
2. 2: Becoming a Man in Yndias: The Mediations of Catalina de Erauso, The Lieutenant Nun No access
3. 3: Reading Violence, Making Chicana Subjectivities No access
4. 4: Talking Across Latinidades: Disidentificatory Feminism in El Mundo Zurdo No access
5. 5: Afro-Latinidades: Bridging Blackness and Latinidad No access
6. 6: Technologies: Transculturations of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in Arturo A. Schomburg's Masonic Writings No access
1. 7: Central American Diasporas: Transnational Gangs and the Transformation of Latino Identity in the United States No access
2. 8: The Best of Care: Latinas as Transnational Mothers and Caregivers No access
3. 9: Transmigrant Sexualities: The Closet and Other Tales by Colombian Gay Immigrants in New York City No access
4. 10: Flexible Technologies of Subjectivity: Mobility Across the Americas No access
5. 11: Segmentation, Migration, and Reciprocities: Cultural Policy and the Growth of Spanish-Language Media in the United States No access
6. 12: Salsa Dance Performance: Latina/o History in Motion No access
1. 13: An AIDS Testimonial: It's a Broken Record/Ese Disco Se Rayó No access
2. 14: Guayaquileña (In)documentada: One-Way Ticket to My Diaspora(s): A Testimonio No access
3. 15: Accent Generación: Technological Choice and the Spanish Option in Post-9/11 América No access
4. 16: A Bridge to Brown: Politics and Theory of Latin@ Reading No access
5. 17: Mambo No. 5: Montage of the Other Woman No access
Index No access Pages 403 - 414
About the Contributors No access Pages 415 - 420