Post-Borderlandia: Chicana Literature and Gender Variant Critique (Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States) by T. Jackie Cuevas - 2018

Rutgers University Press, 2018. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Using a gender variant critique, Cuevas makes gender nonconformity an explicit question in order to understand its relation to queer sexuality and Chicanx identities, experiences, and representations. She turns to cultural productions to ponder how Chicana authors have grappled with queerness as a locus of cultural tension, how gender and queer relate in the fictive worlds of gender transgressive and gender variant Chicanxs. The topics are Chicana masculinities, ambiguous Chicanx bodies, transing Chicanidad, Brokeback Rancho, and from a long line of marimachas. (2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)