Post-Borderlandia: Chicana Literature and Gender Variant Critique

By T. Jackie Cuevas

Honorable Mention, 2018 Gloria E. Anzald a Book Prize from the National Women's Studies Association
2019 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist​

Bringing Chicana/o studies into conversation with queer theory and transgender studies, Post-Borderlandia examines why gender variance is such a core theme in contemporary Chicana and Chicanx narratives. It considers how Chicana butch lesbians and Chicanx trans people are not only challenging heteropatriarchal norms, but also departing from mainstream conceptions of queerness and gender identification.

Expanding on Gloria Anzald a's classic formulation of the Chicana as transformer of the "borderlands," Jackie Cuevas explores how a new generation of Chicanx writers, performers, and filmmakers are imagining a "post-borderlands" subjectivity, where shifting national, racial, class, sexual, and gender identifications produce complex power dynamics. In addition, Cuevas offers fresh archival analysis of the Chicana feminist canon to reveal how queer gender variance has always been crucial to this literary tradition.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813594529
• ISBN13: 9780813594521
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.8" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher