Description: Racial Immanence : Chicanx Bodies Beyond Representation, Hardcover by López, Marissa K., ISBN 1479807729, ISBN-13 9781479807727, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Explores the how, why, and what of contemporary Chicanx culture, including punk rock, literary fiction, photography, mass graves, and and experimental installation art Racial Immanence attempts to unravel a Gordian knot at the center of the study of race and discourse: it seeks to loosen the constraints that the politics of racial representation put on interpretive methods and on our understanding of race itself. Marissa K. López argues that reading Chicanx literary and cultural texts primarily for the ways they represent Chicanxness only reinscribes the very racial logic that such texts ostensibly set out to undo. Racial Immanence proposes to read differently; instead of focusing on representation, it asks what Chicanx texts do, what they produce in the world, and specifically how they produce access to the ineffable but material experience of race. Intrigued by the attention to disease, disability, abjection, and sense experience that she sees increasing in Chicanx visual, literary, and performing arts in the late-twentieth century, López explores how and why artists use the body in contemporary Chicanx cultural production. Racial Immanence takes up works by writers like Dagoberto Gilb, Cecile Pineda, and Gil Cuadros, the photographers Ken Gonzales Day and Stefan Ruiz, and the band Piñata Protest to argue that the body offers a unique site for pushing back against identity politics. In so doing, th challenges theoretical conversations around affect and the post-human and asks what it means to truly consider people of color as writersand artists. Moving beyond abjection, López models Chicanx cultural production as a way of fostering networks of connection that deepen our attachments to the material world.
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Book Title: Racial Immanence : Chicanx Bodies Beyond Representation
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Racial Immanence : Chicanx Bodies Beyond Representation
Publisher: New York University Press
Subject: Caribbean & Latin American, General, American / Hispanic American
Publication Year: 2019
Item Height: 0.8 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 15 Oz
Subject Area: Literary Criticism
Author: Marissa K. López
Item Length: 9.3 in
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
