Post-Borderlandia

T. JACKIE CUEVAS is an associate professor in the department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. Cuevas is the coeditor of El Mundo Zurdo 4: Selected Works from the Meetings of The Society for the Study of Gloria AnzaldÚa, and she has published in journals such as Latino Studies.

• Preface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Gender Variance and the Post-Borderlands1          Chicana Masculinities2          Ambiguous Chicanx Bodies3          Transing Chicanidad4          Brokeback RanchoConclusion: From a Long Line of MarimachasNotesBibliographyIndex

"Cuevas’s invigorating appraisal and persuasive readings of under-examined yet pivotal texts and writers, refreshing refusal to adhere to the sex/gender binary, and stunning ability to link history with critical theory breathes new life into Chicano/a literary and queer studies." - Richard T. Rodríguez (author of Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics) "Building on and moving beyond the work of Gloria Anzaldua, Post-Borderlandia interrogates the queer Chicana literary archive through the lens of gender variant critique. Arguing that gender non-conformity shapes understandings of queerness in Chicanx literary texts, this original and provocative book theorizes a movement beyond the binaries of white lesbianism and heteronormative Chicanidad, examining the normative projects of borderlands theory and queer of color critique to claim post-borderlandia as a site where gender variance opens up new potentialities for Chicanx subjectivity. A beautifully written, challenging, and ground-breaking text." - Chandra Talpade Mohanty (author of Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity) "Spring Arts 2018 Books: Fact, fiction and beyond" by Will Owen (Washington Blade) "New Scholarly Books: Weekly Book List, May 25, 2018" by Nina C. Ayoub (Chronicle of Higher Education) "Post-Borderlandia indeed creates an archive showing that gender variance is central to Chicana literature. Further, it shows that such intersectional non-normativity is, in the words of Rosario Castellanos quoted by Cuevas, “Otro modo de ser humano y libre” ‘Another way of being human and free’" (Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature) "Post-Borderlandia is a necessary read for scholars of both Latinx literature and queer/trans studies, offering exciting new takes on classic texts and drawing attention to lesser-known cultural artifacts." (MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.) "Post-Borderlandia is a valuable book for scholars in the fields of Hispanic and Chicanx cultures and those who study gender and queer theory; this work combines all in a way that is both insightful and fascinating for the reader....Cuevas takes Anzaldua’s work and expands upon it beautifully, bringing her ground-breaking work of the 1980s into a more contemporary context that will be of interest to many scholars."(Hispanic Research Journal) "Cuevas makes a critical intervention into the body of scholarship concerning Chicana/o/x LBGTQ literature....Readers will certainly find value in Cuevas’s analytical acumen [and] some may wonder which other Chicanx texts could have been brought under this lens: how might a gender variant critique be marshalled to examine Chicanx and non-Chicanx characters and open new possibilities within Chicana/o/x cultural productions? In this way, Cuevas has done the significant work of illuminating what had long been ignored." (Feministas Unidas)