Clicas: gender, sexuality, and struggle Latina/o/x gang literature and film

"Clicas examines Latina/o/x literature and film by and/or about gay and women gang members. Through close readings of literature and film, Frank García reimagines the typical narratives describing gang membership and culture, amplifying and complicating critical gang studies in the social scien...

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Main Author: García, Frank (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: Austin University of Texas Press 2024
In:Year: 2024
Edition:First edition
Online Access: Cover (Publisher)
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Keywords:
Gangs in literature
Gangster films
Female gangs in motion pictures
Hispanic American gangs > Social aspects > United States
Gang members > United States > Social conditions
Hispanic American gangs > Political aspects > United States
Masculinity > Latin America
Masculinity in motion pictures
Sexual minorities in motion pictures
Latin Americans in motion pictures
Sexual minorities in literature
Latin Americans in literature
Englisch
English
Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies
Ethnische Gruppen und multikulturelle Studien
Film, Kino
Films, cinema
Gay & Lesbian studies
Gender Studies: Gruppen
Gender studies, gender groups
HISTORY / Social History
Hispanic & Latino studies
LGBTQ+ Studien / Themen
LIT025060
LIT025070
LIT026000
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic American
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren
Organisiertes Verbrechen
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Hispanic American Studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
Hispanoamerika > Literatur > Verbrechen > Motiv
Film > Literatur > Latina > Hispanos > Motiv > Bande > Geschlechterverhältnis > Motiv > Männlichkeit > Motiv
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Summary:"Clicas examines Latina/o/x literature and film by and/or about gay and women gang members. Through close readings of literature and film, Frank García reimagines the typical narratives describing gang membership and culture, amplifying and complicating critical gang studies in the social sciences and humanities and looking at gangs across racial, ethnic, and national identities. Analyzing how the autobiographical poetry of Ana Castillo presents gang fashion, culture, and violence to the outside world, the effects of women performing female masculinity in the novel Locas, and gay gang members' experiences of community in the documentary Homeboy, García complicates the dialogue regarding hypermasculine gang cultures, showing how they are accessible not only to straight men, but also the complicated ways that women and gay members can appropriate these qualities, which can be harming and also, at times, emancipating. Reading gang members as (de)colonial agents who contest the power relations, inequalities, oppressions, and hierarchies of the United States, Clicas considers how women and gay gang members resist materially and psychologically within a milieu shaped by the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, and class"--
"How Latina/o/x gang literature and film represent women and gay gang members' challenges to gendered, sexual, racial, and class oppression"--
Physical Description:xii, 258 Seiten, Illustrationen
ISBN:978-1-4773-2942-9
978-1-4773-2943-6