Performing Mexicanidad : Vendidas y Cabareteras on the Transnational Stage.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (265 pages)
- Chicana Matters Series .
- Chicana Matters Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Unsettling Comforts: Notes on Language, Politics, and Sex/Sexuality in a Transnational Context -- PART ONE: REIMAGINING THE ARCHIVES OF FEMININITY AND SEXUALITY -- Chapter One. Sexing Guadalupe in Transnational Double Crossings -- Chapter Two. Gender Parody, Political Satire, and Postmodern Rancheras: Astrid Hadad's "Heavy Nopal" Aesthetics -- Chapter Three. Fue En Un Cabaret: Nation, Melodrama, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Mexican Performance -- PART TWO: CHICANA AND MEXICANA QUEER PERFORMANCE INTERVENTIONS -- Chapter Four. Nao Bustamente's "Bad-Girl" Aesthetics -- Chapter Five. Ximena Cuevas's Critical Collages -- Coda. Transtortilleras: Political Cabaret in the Twenty-First Century -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Coda -- Works Cited -- Index.
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Sex in the performing arts-Mexico. Lesbians in the performing arts-Mexico. Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)-Social aspects-Mexico. Women entertainers-Mexico. Women performance artists-Mexico.