Fatherhood in the Borderlands : A Daughter's Slow Approach

Perez, Domino Renee

University of Texas Press（2022/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 368 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780292745537
• DDC分類 810.9352510896872

Full Description

2023 Finalist, Best Academic Themed Book, College Level - English, International Latino Book Awards

A contemplative exploration of cultural representations of Mexican American fathers in contemporary media.

As a young girl growing up in Houston, Texas, in the 1980s, Domino Perez spent her free time either devouring books or watching films-and thinking, always thinking, about the media she consumed. The meaningful connections between these media and how we learn form the basis of Perez's "slow" research approach to race, class, and gender in the borderlands. Part cultural history, part literary criticism, part memoir, Fatherhood in the Borderlands takes an incisive look at the value of creative inquiry while it examines the nuanced portrayal of Mexican American fathers in literature and film.

Perez reveals a shifting tension in the literal and figurative borderlands of popular narratives and shows how form, genre, and subject work to determine the roles Mexican American fathers are allowed to occupy. She also calls our attention to the cultural landscape that has allowed such a racialized representation of Mexican American fathers to continue, unopposed, for so many years. Fatherhood in the Borderlands brings readers right to the intersection of the white cultural mainstream in the United States and Mexican American cultural productions, carefully considering the legibility and illegibility of Brown fathers in contemporary media.

Contents

Preface: The Slow Lowdown
Introduction: A Slow Approach to Fathers and Other Fictions
Part I. Sourcing Authority

Film: Ancianos not Abuelos: Making Space and Mediating Male Power
Personal Narrative: "No, I Am Your Father"
Literature: Fathers and Racialized Masculinities in Luis Alberto Urrea's In Search of Snow

Part II. Instrumentalizing Indigeneity

Personal Narrative: Nobody Ever Said We Were Aztecs
Film: Fatherhood, Chicanismo, and the Cultural Politics of Healing in La Mission
Literature: New Tribalism and Chicana/o Indigeneity in the Work of Gloria AnzaldÚa

Part III. Fantasmas and Fronteras

Literature: Fathers, Sons, and Other (Short) Fictions
Film: Meta and Mutant Fathers
Personal Narrative: Family Fictions and Other Lies about the Truth

Conclusion: Fathers and Futurity
Parting Shot
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited and Consulted
Index