Harmonizing Latina Visions and Voices

Cultural Explorations of Entornos

Amarilys Estrella, Melissa Maldonado-Salcedo

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2024
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9798216338390
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Feminism & Feminist Theory
• Index: Social Sciences

Harmonizing Latina Visions and Voices: Cultural Explorations ofEntornos discursively challenges the erasures, stigma, and silences imposed on women by functioning as a harmonizing choir, a collection of voices to testify on mujerismo, its vision, and its promise for (our) future. This collection puts "on the record" a pathway toward liberation that pushes back against white supremacist projects unleashed by academia, our families, official narratives of the State, and immigration. This book does not seek to equate the experiences of all Latinas or envision a one-size-fits-all response. We harmonize these diverse voices, understanding that these stories, poems, and essays are invoking different spaces, times, and experiences. We offer them as an intergenerational, intellectual, and spiritual dialogue. As a practice, this work centers and contextualizes how women's resistance is articulated and expressed. The stories reflected in the chapters that follow are often matricentric, transnational, and queer. Some recurring themes center on the policing, policies, and legislations that govern Latina's bodies and the entornos (social/environmental worlds) in which they move, are detained, or embodied.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• List of Figures
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I: Who Is a Latina?
• Chapter 1: A Letter to Black Womxn of Abya Yala and Turtle Island
• Chapter 2: The Formula for Visible Latin(a)dad: Latina Pop Icons and their US-based Personas
• Chapter 3: Cultivating a Pleasure Practice
• Chapter 4: Beauty in Isolation
• Chapter 5: Las Cosas Pequeñas: A Study of How the Little Things Add Up
• Chapter 6: A Poetics of Relajo: Josefina Baez (Cyber) Stages Levente no. Yolayorkdominicanyork
• Chapter 7: “Ser Latina” and “Do You Touch Yourself?”
• Part II: Mothering
• Chapter 8: Grandmother
• Chapter 9: Gendered Intergenerational Trauma: Reflections and Explorations on Embodied Mami Issues
• Chapter 10: “My Mother, Myth, and Monster”
• Chapter 11: Magaly Pineda Remembered
• Chapter 12: Not My Mother’s Eyes
• Chapter 13: Verde
• Chapter 14: Abuela Elsa: La Matriarca
• Chapter 15: Dolores
• Part III: Entornos and the Body
• Chapter 16: “Rerooting” and “You’ll Still Be Fine”
• Chapter 17: Interrogating Intimacies: Black Feminist Desahogos in Anti-Racist Activism
• Chapter 18: Children’s Laughter
• Chapter 19: Crafting Social Justice: Seeking Protection and Redistributing Unequal Power Through Brujería
• Chapter 20: The Narrative of the Body: Reframing Identity and Violence in Selena: The Series and Mariposa de Barrio
• Chapter 21: Conquering the Freshman 15
• Chapter 22: Wielders of Ancestral Magic: Imaginative Representations of Queerness in Fantasy Latinx YA Graphic Novel
• Index
• About the Contributors