Fatherhood in the Borderlands : : A Daughter's Slow Approach / / Domino Renee Perez.

As a young girl growing up in Houston, Texas, in the 1980s, Domino Perez spent her free time either devouring books or watching films—and thinking, always thinking, about the media she consumed. The meaningful connections between these media and how we learn form the basis of Perez’s “slow” research...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.) :; 19 b&w photos
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface THE SLOW LOWDOWN
  • Introduction A SLOW APPROACH TO FATHERS AND OTHER FICTIONS
  • PART I Sourcing Authority
  • Introduction
  • Film ANCIANOS NOT ABUELOS Making Space and Mediating Male Power
  • Personal narrative “NO, I AM YOUR FATHER”
  • Literature FATHERS AND RACIALIZED MASCULINITIES IN LUIS ALBERTO URREA’S IN SEARCH OF SNOW
  • PART II Instrumentalizing Indigeneity
  • Introduction
  • Personal narrative NOBODY EVER SAID WE WERE AZTECS
  • Film FATHERHOOD, CHICANISMO, AND THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF HEALING IN LA MISSION
  • Lterature NEW TRIBALISM AND CHICANA/O INDIGENEITY IN THE WORK OF GLORIA ANZALDÚA
  • PART III Fantasmas and Fronteras
  • Introduction
  • Literature FATHERS, SONS, AND OTHER (SHORT) FICTIONS
  • Film META AND MUTANT FATHERS
  • Personal narrative FAMILY FICTIONS AND OTHER LIES ABOUT THE TRUTH
  • Conclusion FATHERS AND FUTURITY
  • PARTING SHOT
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • NOTES
  • WORKS CITED AND CONSULTED
  • INDEX