Sadistic Cholas

Transfeminist Provocations in Contemporary Peru

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvOlga Rodriguez-Ulloa

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Analyzing how Peruvian feminist art and activism subverts and reclaims the chola stereotype to confront colonial and patriarchal institutions.Indigenous Andean women have long been derided in Peru, spurned by colonial and then national elites as depraved cholas. Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa shows how contemporary artists and activists not only reclaim this term of abuse but also mobilize the stereotype of the angry and perverted chola to confront the cruelties of patriarchy, capitalism, and white supremacy. Sadistic Cholas examines music, visual arts, literature, and grassroots organizing by self-identified cholas—in particular, Black women and trans and queer feminists. Under colonial domination, cholas were destined for sexual coercion, labor extraction, and reproductive exploitation. While exhuming historical traces of chola resistance, Rodríguez-Ulloa argues that this condition of oppression persisted through the internal war of the 1980s, when Marxist women at the forefront of the armed campaign were condemned as hypersexual deviants. Inspired by their leftist forebears, today’s artists experiment with an aesthetic of sadistic vengeance, configured as rightful self-defense. Yet, in spite of their violent imagery, activist cholas pursue nonviolent goals, promoting a commons of care incorporating people, animals, and the environment.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-06-16
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt454 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor254
FörlagUniversity of Texas Press
ISBN9781477333754

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"Sadistic Cholas is a brilliant and field-defining contribution to Latin American studies, intervening with contemporary conversations concerning feminist, queer, and trans movements as they have developed over the past two decades in Latin America. With clear and erudite writing, Olga Rodriguez-Ulloa makes a rigorous case for turning to the figure of the sadistic chola in contemporary feminist Peruvian politics and culture. This is a stunning and necessary book in this moment of urgency." - Iván A. Ramos, Brown University, author of Unbelonging: Inauthentic Sounds in Mexican and Latinx Aesthetics"Sadistic Cholas crosses disciplinary, historical, and national borders, offering a theoretically sophisticated and innovative contribution to feminist and gender studies, Latin American studies, and violence studies. Through a deep engagement with the work of selected contemporary, post-conflict artists and activists, Olga Rodriguez-Ulloa disrupts common imaginings of cholas, the body, and of Peruvian society and Peruvian history more broadly." - M. Cristina Alcalde, Miami University, author of Peruvian Lives across Borders: Power, Exclusion, and Home