Eros Ideologies
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Eros Ideologies

Writings on Art, Spirituality, and the Decolonial

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eBook - PDF

Eros Ideologies

Writings on Art, Spirituality, and the Decolonial

About this book

In Eros Ideologies Laura E. Pérez explores the decolonial through Western and non-Western thought concerning personal and social well-being. Drawing upon Jungian, people-of-color, and spiritual psychology alongside non-Western spiritual philosophies of the interdependence of all life-forms, she writes of the decolonial as an ongoing project rooted in love as an ideology to frame respectful coexistence of social and cultural diversity. In readings of art that includes self-portraits by Frida Kahlo, Ana Mendieta, and Yreina D. Cervántez, the drawings and paintings of Chilean American artist Liliana Wilson, and Favianna Rodriguez's screen-printed images, Pérez identifies art as one of the most valuable laboratories for creating, imagining, and experiencing new forms of decolonial thought. Such art expresses what Pérez calls eros ideologies: understandings of social and natural reality that foreground the centrality of respect and care of self and others as the basis for a more democratic and responsible present and future. Employing a range of writing styles and voices—from the poetic to the scholarly—Pérez shows how art can point to more just and loving ways of being.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Illustrations
  4. Preface
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. 1. The Social Body of Love: Crafting Decolonial Methodologies
  7. 2. Eros Ideologies and Methodology of the Oppressed
  8. 3. Long Nguyen: Flesh of the Inscrutable
  9. 4. Hidden Avant-Gardes: Contemporary U.S. Latina/o Art
  10. 5. Freedom and Gender in Ester Hernández’s Libertad
  11. 6. ‘Ginas in the Atelier
  12. 7. The Poetry of Embodiment: Series and Variation in Linda Arreola’s Vaguely Chicana
  13. 8. Art and Museums
  14. 9. The@-Erotics in Alex Donis’s My Cathedral
  15. 10. Con o sin permiso (With or without Permission): Chicana Badgirls: Las hociconas
  16. 11. Maestrapeace: Picturing the Power of Women’s Histories of Creativity
  17. 12. Decolonizing Self-Portraits of Frida Kahlo, Ana Mendieta, and Yreina D. Cervántez
  18. 13. Undead Darwinism and the Fault Lines of Neocolonialism in Latina/o Art Worlds
  19. 14. The Inviolate Erotic in the Paintings of Liliana Wilson
  20. 15. The Performance of Spirituality and Visionary Politics in the Work of Gloria Anzaldúa
  21. 16. Daughters Shaking Earth
  22. 17. Fashioning Decolonial Optics: Days of the Dead Walking Altars and Calavera Fashion Shows in Latina/o Los Angeles
  23. 18. On Jean Pierre Larochette and Yael Lurie’s Water Songs
  24. 19. Prayers for the Planet: Reweaving the Natural and the Social: Consuelo Jimenez Underwood’s Welcome to Flower-Landia
  25. 20. “UndocuNation,” Creativity, Integrity
  26. 21. Writing with Crooked Lines
  27. Notes
  28. References
  29. Index