The Latino Body
Author | : Lazaro Lima |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2007-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0814752152 |
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Author | : Lazaro Lima |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2007-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0814752152 |
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Author | : Isabel Molina-Guzmán |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2010-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0814757367 |
With images of Jennifer Lopez’s butt and America Ferrera’s smile saturating national and global culture, Latina bodies have become an ubiquitous presence. Dangerous Curves traces the visibility of the Latina body in the media and popular culture by analyzing a broad range of popular media including news, media gossip, movies, television news, and online audience discussions. Isabel Molina-Guzmán maps the ways in which the Latina body is gendered, sexualized, and racialized within the United States media using a series of fascinating case studies. The book examines tabloid headlines about Jennifer Lopez’s indomitable sexuality, the contested authenticity of Salma Hayek’s portrayal of Frida Kahlo in the movie Frida, and America Ferrera’s universally appealing yet racially sublimated Ugly Betty character. Dangerous Curves carves out a mediated terrain where these racially ambiguous but ethnically marked feminine bodies sell everything from haute couture to tabloids. Through a careful examination of the cultural tensions embedded in the visibility of Latina bodies in United States media culture, Molina-Guzmán paints a nuanced portrait of the media’s role in shaping public knowledge about Latina identity and Latinidad, and the ways political and social forces shape media representations.
Author | : Astrid M. Fellner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2007 |
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ISBN | : 9783825804398 |
Author | : Lazaro Lima |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2007-08-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0814753205 |
The Latino Body tells the story of the United States Latino body politic and its relation to the state: how the state configures Latino subjects and how Latino subjects have in turn altered the state. Lázaro Lima charts the interrelated groups that define themselves as Latinos and examines how these groups have responded to calls for unity and nationally shared conceptions of American cultural identity. He contends that their responses, in times of cultural or political crisis, have given rise to profound cultural transformations, enabling the so-called “Latino subject“ to emerge. Analyzing a variety of cultural, literary, artistic, and popular texts from the nineteenth century to the present, Lima dissects the ways in which the Latino body has been imagined, dismembered, and reimagined anew, providing one of the first comprehensive accounts of the construction of Latino cultural identity in the United States.
Author | : Rosie Molinary |
Publisher | : Seal Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2007-05-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0786750707 |
In Hijas Americanas, author Rosie Molinary sheds new light on what it means to grow up Latina. Drawing upon her own experiences, as well as interviews and surveys collected from more than 500 Latina women, Molinary provides a powerful understanding of the inner conflicts and powerful triumphs of Latinas. The women profiled in this book are Caribbean, Mexican, Central American, and South American. These first, second and third-generation Latinas have all grappled with the experience of coming of age within not one but two cultures: that of the United States, and that of their familial homelands. Hijas Americanas addresses experiences that are uniquely female and Latin, focusing on themes of body image, standards of beauty, ethnic identity, and sexuality. In doing so, Molinary gives voice to the struggles and successes of Latinas across racial, sexual, and cultural identities, emphasizing that the challenges inherent in growing up between two cultures can positively shape Latinas' lives.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2011 |
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Author | : B. Willis |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2013-01-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1137268808 |
Featuring canonical Spanish American and Brazilian texts of the 1920s and 30s, Corporeality in Early Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature is an innovative analysis of the body as site of inscription for avant-garde objectives such as originality, subjectivity, and subversion.
Author | : Myra Mendible |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2007-10-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0292714939 |
A study of the representation of the Latina body in US popular culture, from "Latin bombshell" Carmen Miranda in the 1940s to Jennifer Lopez and Salma Hayek. It not only sheds light on how meaning is produced through images of the Latina body, but also on how these representations of Latinas are received, revised, and challenged.
Author | : Lyman L. Johnson |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780826332011 |
The long history of the politically symbolic use of the bodies, or body parts, of martyred heroes in Latin America.
Author | : Judith Rodríguez |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 0595297307 |
Offers Latinos practical advice on how they can integrate their favorite Latino dishes into a healthy, nutritious lifestyle, combing traditional and modern foods to create a comprehensive diet plan.