TY  - DATA
AU  - López,Marissa K.
TI  - Racial Immanence: Chicanx Bodies beyond Representation 
SN  - 9781479877676
AV  - PS153.M4 L665 2020
U1  - 810.986872073 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - American literature
KW  - Mexican American authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Ethnicity in literature
KW  - Mexican Americans in literature
KW  - Race in literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - AIDS
KW  - Alejandro Morales
KW  - Aztec
KW  - Beatrice Pita
KW  - Brazil
KW  - Cecile Pineda
KW  - Chicano
KW  - Chicanx art
KW  - Chicanx literature
KW  - Chicanx performance
KW  - Chicanx punk
KW  - Dagoberto Gilb
KW  - Gil Cuadros
KW  - Ken Gonzales-Day
KW  - Mexican American
KW  - Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
KW  - Rosaura Sánchez
KW  - Sheila Ortiz Taylor
KW  - Stefan Ruiz
KW  - Texas
KW  - accordion
KW  - affect
KW  - barbasco
KW  - biometrics
KW  - digital installation art
KW  - hormones
KW  - immanence
KW  - indigeneity
KW  - mass graves
KW  - materiality
KW  - narrative
KW  - photography
KW  - posthumanism
KW  - punk
KW  - queer
KW  - race
KW  - representation
KW  - science fiction
KW  - soldiers
KW  - theater
KW  - theory
KW  - visuality
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Winner, 2021 NACCS Book Award, given by the National Association for Chicano and Chicana StudiesExplores the how, why, and what of contemporary Chicanx culture, including punk rock, literary fiction, photography, mass graves, and digital and experimental installation artRacial 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, the book 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479807727.001.0001
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479877676
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781479877676/original
ER  -