El Drag Guadalupista: Confronting Hegemony in Mexican and Chicana Feminist and Queer Performance

Rachel COMBS-GONZALEZ

Article Details

El Drag Guadalupista: Confronting Hegemony in Mexican and Chicana Feminist and Queer Performance

Authors:

Rachel COMBS-GONZALEZ

Publisher:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Journal:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 2015 Issue 42, pp.81-105

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

9/2015

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000734281

Frequency:

Bi-Annual

pISSN:

1300-6606

Abstract:

 

This article analyzes La Frontera  the border separating the US from Mexico  as a performance by studying the relationship between sexuality and politics. Specifically, it compares heterosexual hegemony with political hegemony, and demonstrates how both sexuality and politics engage in a navigation of power through performance by proposing the term el drag guadalupista. An analysis of a virgin-whore complex present in contemporary Mexican and Chicano society, made apparent by the roles of La Virgen de Guadalupe and La Malinche in the creation of Mexican and Chicano national identity, will show how the visual representations of the Virgin created by the artists Alma López, Alex Donis, and Jim Ru challenge both the heterosexual hegemony within Mexicanidad, Chicanidad, and Latinidad, and the political and cultural power of the United States by means of representing, and re-presenting, the sexuality of La Virgen.

Article Details

El Drag Guadalupista: Confronting Hegemony in Mexican and Chicana Feminist and Queer Performance

Authors: Rachel COMBS-GONZALEZ

Publisher: American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Journal: Journal of American Studies of Turkey 2015 Issue 42, pp.81-105

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 9/2015

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2000734281

Frequency: Bi-Annual

pISSN: 1300-6606

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Authors:

Rachel COMBS-GONZALEZ

Publisher:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Journal:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 2015 Issue 42, pp.81-105

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

9/2015

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000734281

Frequency:

Bi-Annual

pISSN:

1300-6606