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Queering Mesoamerican Diasporas : Remembering Xicana Indigena Ancestries
Title
Queering Mesoamerican Diasporas : Remembering Xicana Indigena Ancestries / Susy J. Zepeda.
ISBN
9780252053535
9780252086601
9780252044533
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2022]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022
Copyright Notice Date
©[2022]
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Summary
"Acts of remembering offer a path to decolonization for Indigenous peoples forcibly dislocated from their culture, knowledge, and land. Susy J. Zepeda highlights the often overlooked yet intertwined legacies of Chicana feminisms and queer decolonial theory through the work of select queer Indígena cultural producers and thinkers. By tracing the ancestries and silences of gender-nonconforming people of color, she addresses colonial forms of epistemic violence and methods of transformation, in particular spirit research. Zepeda also uses archival materials, raised ceremonial altars, and analysis of decolonial artwork in conjunction with oral histories to explore the matriarchal roots of Chicana/x and Latina/x feminisms. As she shows, these feminisms are forms of knowledge that people can remember through Indigenous-centered visual narratives, cultural wisdom, and spirit practices. A fascinating exploration of hidden Indígena histories and silences, Queering Mesoamerican Diasporas blends scholarship with spirit practices to reimagine the root work, dis/connection to land, and the political decolonization of Xicana/x peoples"-- Provided by publisher.
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Project MUSE complete collection 2022.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 19, 2023
Series
Transformations: womanist, feminist, and indigenous studies
Contents
Introduction : tracing queer Mesoamerican diasporas
Decolonizing 1848 : unraveling conflicting colonial histories of land and race to trace queer ancestry
Enseñanzas con la Maestra Gloria, in ceremony with Anzaldúa: altars, archives, and aligning with the cosmic borderlands
Queer indígena art : visual prayers for remembering
Grandmother Earth through oral and visual storytelling
Tracing Latina lesbiana historias of resistance, solidarity, and visibility : genealogical archives of a generation of gatherers and guardians of knowledge
Epilogue : coda of enseñanzas
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