Imagining Queer Chican@s in the Post-Borderlands
This paper reveals how the tension of choosing between ethnic solidarity and non-normative gender/sexual identity continues to trouble Chican@/Latin@ writers, as evidenced in Felicia Luna Lemus’ novel Like Son (2007). Lemus's fiction serves as a prime example of how queer and genderqueer litera...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Presses universitaires de Rennes
2013-06-01
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| Series: | Revue LISA |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/lisa/5262 |
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| Summary: | This paper reveals how the tension of choosing between ethnic solidarity and non-normative gender/sexual identity continues to trouble Chican@/Latin@ writers, as evidenced in Felicia Luna Lemus’ novel Like Son (2007). Lemus's fiction serves as a prime example of how queer and genderqueer literary figures struggle — and often fail —to imagine themselves as desirable subjects of an emerging Latinotopia. Even as Latina/o presence further permeates the U.S. popular imaginary, queer Latin@ texts such as Lemus's remain attentive to the ongoing marginalization of non-normative genders and sexualities within Latinidad. |
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| ISSN: | 1762-6153 |