Homecoming Queers: Desire and Difference in Chicana Latina by Marivel T. Danielson

By Marivel T. Danielson

Homecoming Queers presents a severe dialogue of the a number of recommendations utilized by queer Latina authors and artists within the usa to problem silence and invisibility inside of mainstream media, literary canons, and theater areas. Marivel T. Danielson's research unearths the large legacy of those cultural artists, together with novelists, filmmakers, scholars and activists, comedians, performers, and playwrights. by way of sincerely discussing the complexities and universalities of ethnic, racial, sexual, gender, and sophistication intersections among queer Chicana and U.S. Latinas, Danielson explores the a number of methods identification shapes and colors artistic expression. Weaknesses and gaps are printed within the remedy of distinction as a complete, inside dominant and marginalized communities.

Spanning a number of genres and varieties, and together with scholarly concept along performances, movies, narratives, and testimonials, Homecoming Queers leads readers alongside a vital course towards figuring out and overcoming the silences that in the past existed throughout those fields.

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