{"product_id":"clicas-gender-sexuality-and-struggle-in-latina-o-x-gang-literature-and-film-paperback-softback-9781477329436","title":"Clicas; Gender, Sexuality, and Struggle in Latina\/o\/x Gang Literature and Film (Paperback \/ softback) 9781477329436","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eClicas\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGender, Sexuality, and Struggle in Latina\/o\/x Gang Literature and Film\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eFrank García (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477329436, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 23 July 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages, 7 b-w photos\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.399 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e[This book's] greatest contribution is its humane analysis of Latina\/o\/x gang representation in a selection of literary works and films...[It] will be a valuable contribution to specialists and general audiences interested in serious studies of gang cultures in the United States.\u003c\/div\u003e (Hispania)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow Latina\/o\/x gang literature and film represent women and gay gang members’ challenges to gendered, sexual, racial, and class oppression.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eClicas\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eLocas\u003c\/i\u003e, and gay gang members’ experiences of community in the documentary \u003ci\u003eHomeboy\u003c\/i\u003e, GarcÍa complicates the dialogue regarding hypermasculine gang cultures. He shows how they are accessible not only to straight men but also to women and gay men who can appropriate them in complicated ways, 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, \u003ci\u003eClicas\u003c\/i\u003e considers how women and gay gang members resist materially and psychologically within a milieu shaped by the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, and class. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 1: Gang Subcultures as (De)colonial Praxis \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 2: The Shared Experience of (De)colonial Gang Life \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 3: The Toxified Female Masculinities of (De)colonial Gang Girls \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 4: (De)colonial Gay Locos, Disidentifications, and Counterpublics \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 5: The Queer Utopian Futurity of Failed Gang Members \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Afterword: The Immigrant\/Gang Member Binary in Latina\/o\/x Gang Literature and Film \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Filmography \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Notes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e References \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52590990197016,"sku":"9781477329436","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/clicas-gender-sexuality-and-struggle-in-latina-o-x-gang-literature-and-film-paperback-softback-9781477329436","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}