Reading Chican@ Like a Queer: The De-Mastery of Desire (Cmas History, Culture, & Society)
By Sandra K. Soto.
Description
A race-based oppositional paradigm has informed Chicano studies since its emergence. In this work, Sandra K. Soto replaces that paradigm with a less didactic, more flexible framework geared for a queer analysis of the discursive relationship between racialization and sexuality. Through rereadings of a diverse range of widely discussed writers—from Américo Paredes to Cherríe Moraga—Soto demonstrates that representations of racialization actually depend on the sexual and that a racialized sexuality is a heretofore unrecognized organizing principle of Chican@ literatu...
ISBN(s)
0292728913, 9780292728912
