Deborah Paredez

Selenidad

Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An ethnography on the significance of Selena's afterlife for Latino identity

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 159mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780822344896
• ISBN-10: 0822344890
• Artikelnr.: 26111189

Autorenporträt

Deborah Paredez is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas, Austin.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface xi
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction: Selenidad and Latinidad in the 1990s 1
1. Soundtracks of Selenidad: "Disco Medley" and "Como la Flor" 31
2. Colonial Past, Tejano Present: Civic Maintenance is Selena's Memorial 56
3. Selena Forever, Latin Futures 95
4. Becoming Selena, Becoming Latina 126
5. "Como la Flor" Reprised: Queer Selenidad 155
Epilogue 187
Notes 193
Selected Bibliography 231
Index 245