Latina/o discourse in vernacular spaces : somos de una voz? / edited by Michelle A. Holling and Bernadette M. Calafell.

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TextSeries: Race, rites, and rhetoricPublication details: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2011.Description: 1 online resource (xxv, 276 p.)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780739146507
0739146505
1283009404
9781283009409
9786613009401
6613009407

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Latina/o discourse in vernacular spacesDDC classification:

420/.4261 22

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P94.5.H58

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Contents:

Listening to our voices : Latina/os and the communities they speak / Alberto González -- Tracing the emergence of Latin@ vernaculars in studies of Latin@ communication / Michelle A. Holling and Bernadette M. Calafell -- The rhetorical legacy of Coyolxauhqui : (re)collecting and (re)membering voice / Teresita Garza -- Gender politics, democratic demand and anti-essentialism in the New York young lords / Darrel Enck-Wanzer -- DREAMers' discourse : young Latino/a immigrants and the naturalization of the American dream / Claudia Anguiano and Karma R. Chávez -- Nuestro himno as heterotopic mimicry : on the ambivalences of a Latin@ voicing / Nathaniel I. Córdova -- Latinidad in Ugly betty : authenticity and the paradox of representation / Stacey Sowards and Richard D. Pineda -- Of rocks and nations : Voces rockeras [rock music voices] and the discourse of "nationality" / Roberto Avant-Mier -- When sexual becomes spiritual : Lila Downs and the body of voice / Christopher Joseph Westgate -- "This is one line you won't have to worry about crossing" : crossing borders and becoming / Lisa B.Y. Calvente -- Hablando por (nos)otros, speaking for ourselves : exploring the possibilities of "speaking por" family and pueblo in the Bolivian testimonio "sí me permiten hablar" [let me speak!] / T.M. Linda Scholz.

Summary: Voz, or voice, thematically structures the twleve original essays of Latina/o Discourse in Vernacular Spaces. This collection extends the study of Latina/o communication, in particular vernacular expressions covering a wide array of inquiries. The essays address such diverse topics as foundational developments, the intersection of culture, theory and disciplinarity, challenges to prevailing ideas about belonging and citizenship, identity tensions in latinidad, marginality, and nationalism, and voices that demonstrate possibilities for solidarity, redefinition and reclamations.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-264) and index.

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Voz, or voice, thematically structures the twleve original essays of Latina/o Discourse in Vernacular Spaces. This collection extends the study of Latina/o communication, in particular vernacular expressions covering a wide array of inquiries. The essays address such diverse topics as foundational developments, the intersection of culture, theory and disciplinarity, challenges to prevailing ideas about belonging and citizenship, identity tensions in latinidad, marginality, and nationalism, and voices that demonstrate possibilities for solidarity, redefinition and reclamations.

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