Technofuturos

Critical Interventions in Latina/o Studies

Contributions by Roman de la Campa, Nicole Guidotti-Hernández, Marcia Ochoa, Jossiana Arroyo, Karina Cespedes, Arturo Arias, Teresa Carrillo, Mari Paredes, Erica Marquez, Aisha Beliso, Priscilla Renta, Alberto Sandoval Sánchez, Esther Cuesta, Ramon Solorzano, Isabel Espinal, Lisa Sánchez González Edited by Nancy Raquel Mirabal, Agustin Laó-Montes

Publication date:

19 April 2007

Length of book:

430 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

Dimensions:

235x164mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9780739108956

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.

Part 1 Historical Futures
Chapter 2 Latin, Latino, American: Split States and the Global Imaginary
Chapter 3 Reading Violence, Making Chicana Subjectivities
Chapter 4 Becoming a Man in Yndias: The Mediations of Catalina De Erauso, The Lieutenant Nun
Chapter 5 Afro-Latinas: Bridging Blackness and Latinidad
Chapter 6 Technologies: Transculturations of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in Arturo A. Schomburg's Masonic Writings
Part 7 Globality
Chapter 8 Transfeminismos en el mundo zurdo: Trajectories of U.S. Third World Feminisms
Chapter 9 Central American Diasporas: Transnational Gangs and the Transformation of Latina/o Identity in the United States
Chapter 10 The Best of Care: Latinas and the Discourse of Care
Chapter 11 Segmentation, Migration, and Reciprocities: Cultural Policy and the Growth of Spanish-language Media in the US
Chapter 12 Transmigrant Identities: The Closet and Other Tales by Colombian Immigrants in New York
Chapter 13 "Ochero.com": Circimscribing Transnational Spiritualism Through the Aesthetics of Internet Botanicas
Chapter 14 The Salsa Dancing Body On and Off Stage: A Locus of Agency and Transculturation
Part 15 Writing Self
Chapter 16 An AIDS Testimonial: It's a Broken Record: Ese disco se rayó
Chapter 17 Guayaquileña (in)documentada: One Way Ticket to My Diaspora(s): A Testimonio
Chapter 18 Accent on José: Technological Choice and the Spanish Option in Post 911 America
Chapter 19 A Bridge to Brown: The Politics of Latina Reading
Chapter 20 Mambo No. 5: Montage of the Other Woman

This thoughtful and exciting collection of essays provides a terrific place to explore the multiplicities and complexities of Latina/o Studies. Through sharp, insightful analysis, the essays actively destabilize even as they help to redefine our understandings of critical issues in Latinidades including the workings of silence, the politics of possibility, and the historical geographies of location and self, Reflecting impressive intellectual dexterity, they are able to capture variability and the ever-changing cartographies of this field while effectively situating these technologies of knowledge historically. This volume captures the best of the state-of-the field today.