Fatherhood in the Borderlands
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-2634-3 (ISBN)
A contemplative exploration of cultural representations of Mexican American fathers in contemporary media.
As a young girl growing up in Houston, Texas, in the 1980s, Domino Perez spent her free time either devouring books or watching films—and thinking, always thinking, about the media she consumed. The meaningful connections between these media and how we learn form the basis of Perez’s “slow” research approach to race, class, and gender in the borderlands. Part cultural history, part literary criticism, part memoir, Fatherhood in the Borderlands takes an incisive look at the value of creative inquiry while it examines the nuanced portrayal of Mexican American fathers in literature and film.
Perez reveals a shifting tension in the literal and figurative borderlands of popular narratives and shows how form, genre, and subject work to determine the roles Mexican American fathers are allowed to occupy. She also calls our attention to the cultural landscape that has allowed such a racialized representation of Mexican American fathers to continue, unopposed, for so many years. Fatherhood in the Borderlands brings readers right to the intersection of the white cultural mainstream in the United States and Mexican American cultural productions, carefully considering the legibility and illegibility of Brown fathers in contemporary media.
Domino Renee Perez is an associate professor in the department of English and the Center for Mexican American Studies at UT Austin. She is the author of There Was a Woman: La Llorona from Folklore to Popular Culture and coeditor of Race and Cultural Practice in Popular Culture.
Preface: The Slow Lowdown
Introduction: A Slow Approach to Fathers and Other Fictions
Part I. Sourcing Authority
Film: Ancianos not Abuelos: Making Space and Mediating Male Power
Personal Narrative: “No, I Am Your Father”
Literature: Fathers and Racialized Masculinities in Luis Alberto Urrea’s In Search of Snow
Part II. Instrumentalizing Indigeneity
Personal Narrative: Nobody Ever Said We Were Aztecs
Film: Fatherhood, Chicanismo, and the Cultural Politics of Healing in La Mission
Literature: New Tribalism and Chicana/o Indigeneity in the Work of Gloria Anzaldúa
Part III. Fantasmas and Fronteras
Literature: Fathers, Sons, and Other (Short) Fictions
Film: Meta and Mutant Fathers
Personal Narrative: Family Fictions and Other Lies about the Truth
Conclusion: Fathers and Futurity
Parting Shot
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited and Consulted
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.10.2022 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 19 b&w photos |
| Verlagsort | Austin, TX |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 513 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4773-2634-0 / 1477326340 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4773-2634-3 / 9781477326343 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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