Born of resistance : cara a cara encounters with Chicana/o visual culture

This collection of essays interrogates the most contested social, political, and aesthetic concept in Chicana/o cultural studies—resistance. If Chicana/o culture was born of resistance amid assimilation and nationalistic forces, how has it evolved into the twenty-first century? This groundbreaking volume redresses the central idea of resistance in Chicana/o visual cultural expression through nine clustered discussions, each coordinating scholarly, critical, curatorial, and historical contextualizations alongside artist statements and interviews. Landmark artistic works—illustrations, paintings, sculpture, photography, film, and television—anchor each section. Contributors include David Avalos, Mel Casas, Ester Hernández, Nicholas Herrera, Luis Jiménez, Ellen Landis, Yolanda López, Richard Lou, Delilah Montoya, Laura Pérez, Lourdes Portillo, Luis Tapia, Chuy Treviño, Willie Varela, Kathy Vargas, René Yañez, Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, and more. Cara a cara, face-to-face, encounters across the collection reveal the varied richness of resistant strategies, movidas, as they position crucial terms of debate surrounding resistance, including subversion, oppression, affirmation, and identification. The essays in the collection represent a wide array of perspectives on Chicana/o visual culture. Editors Scott L. Baugh and Víctor A. Sorell have curated a dialog among the many voices, creating an important new volume that redefines the role of resistance in Chicana/o visual arts and cultural expression. Cover Title page, Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Resisting Definitions of Chicana/o Visual Culture (Scott L. Baugh and Víctor A. Sorell) (Re)Forming America’s Libertad (Ester Hernández) Freedom and Gender in Ester Hernández’s Libertad A Conversation with Yolanda López and Víctor A. Sorell Thoughts on Who’s the Illegal Pilgrim Remapping America in Ester Hernández’s Libertad and Yolanda López’s Who’s the Illegal Alien, Pilgrim? San Diego Donkey Cart Reconsidered A Remembered Dismemberment: David Avalos’s San Diego Donkey Cart The Border Door: Complicating a Binary Space Through The Border Door Public Interventions and Social Disruptions Thoughts on Dos Pedros sin Llaves Thoughts on St. Peter Is Imprisoned Pedro in the Pinta, Have You Seen My Keys?: Inside the Art of Luis Tapia and Nicholas Herrera The Persistence of Chicana/o Art: Contemporary Santeros Reinterpret a Traditional Santo From Man on Fire Editorial Note Rearing Mustang, Razing Mesteño Kindred Spirits: On the Art and Life of Luis Jiménez Occupying a Space Between Myth and Reality: The Sculpture of Luis Jiménez A Conversation with Mel Casas and Rubén C. Cordova Brown Paper Report A Contingency Factor Getting the Big Picture: Political Themes in the Humanscapes of Mel Casas Revisiting My Alamo Malinche y Pocahontas, Breaking Out of the Picture From “Many Wests” Topographies of the Imaginary: Kathy Vargas’s My Alamo and Robert C. Buitrón’s El Corrido de Happy Trails Where Carnales Were, There Shall Unprodigal Daughters Be: Kathy Vargas’s My Alamo and Robert C. Buitrón’s Malinche y Pocahontas A Conversation with Willie Varela and Scott L. Baugh In This Burning World, Willie Varela Resists Sense and Sensibilities: Discontinuing Conventions in/for Willie Varela’s Burning World Tracking the Monster: Thoughts on Señorita Extraviada Between Anger and Love: The Presence of Señorita Extraviada The Eye of Pain/El Ojo del Dolor Resisting the Violence of Values: Lourdes Portillo’s Señorita Extraviada as Performative Utterance From Yo Soy Chicano to Resurrection Blvd., Thirty Years of Struggle A Conversation with Dennis Leoni and Christine List De-Essentializing Chicanismo: Interethnic Cooperation in the Work of Jesús Salvador Treviño Editors and Contributors Index Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Resisting Definitions of Chicana/o Visual Culture (Scott L. Baugh and Víctor A. Sorell) -- Part I -- (Re)Forming America's Libertad (Ester Hernández) -- Freedom and Gender in Ester Hernández's Libertad (Laura E. Pérez) -- A Conversation with Yolanda López and Víctor A. Sorell -- Thoughts on Who's the Illegal Pilgrim (René Yañez) -- Remapping America in Ester Hernández's Libertad and Yolanda López's Who's the Illegal Alien, Pilgrim? (Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano) -- Part II -- San Diego Donkey Cart Reconsidered (David Avalos) "This collection of essays gives voice to a diversity of perspectives involved in the production, exhibition, documentation, and interpretation of landmark Chicana/o visual cultural expression since the 1960s, exploring the idea of resistance, with a unifying theme that all art is political; artwork discussed includes etching, lithography, digital retablos, wooden sculpture, photography, painting, video installation, and documentary film"--Provided by publisher