Publish and Flourish is an annual event that recognizes the accomplishments of our faculty and staff who have published within the past year. In connection with the Office of Research and the University Bookstore, The UW Tacoma Library celebrates the achievements of our campus community. In lieu of our campus closure, we will be highlighting these publications online through our blog. The UW Tacoma library purchases all faculty and staff publications to make them available to the UW community. This week we are highlighting:
Imagining LatinX Intimacies: Connecting Queer Stories, Spaces and Sexualities
Author: Ed Chamberlain, Ph.D. Department: Culture, Arts and Communication, division of School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
“Imagining Latinx Intimacies addresses the ways that artists and writers resist the social forces of colonialism, displacement, and oppression through crafting incisive and inspiring responses to the problems that queer Latinx peoples encounter in both daily lives and representation such as art, film, poetry, popular culture, and stories. Instead of keeping quiet, queer Latinx artists and writers have spoken up as a way of challenging stereotypes, prejudice, and the lived experiences of estrangement and physical violence. Artistic thinkers such as Gloria Anzaldúa, Frances Negrón-Muntaner, and Rane Arroyo have challenged such socio-political problems by imagining intimate social and intellectual spaces that resist the status quo like homophobic norms, laws, and policies that hurt families and communities. Building on the intellectual thought of researchers such as Jorge Duany, Adriana de Souza e Silva, and José Esteban Muñoz, this book explains how the imagined spaces of Latinx LGBTQ peoples are blueprints for addressing our tumultuous present and creating a better future.” –Rowman & Littlefield
“In a time when walls and borders are being erected, Edward Chamberlain’s urgency to build bridges connecting differences, becomes an imperative effort to create safe spaces for new coalitions to flourish. Physical or imaginary, these geographies are necessary to sustain a sense of belonging, healing, community and self-development that will ultimately empower Latinx groups. Chamberlain’s book contributes, therefore, to a growing literature on Latinx and queer studies by shedding light to new aesthetic and political interventions based on intersectional intimacies.”— Irune del Rio Gabiola, Professor of Spanish and Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, Butler University
“Imagining LatinX Intimacies highlights queer social relations and the analysis of different types of space in contemporary literature and film by Chicanx, Puerto Rican, and Chilean American lesbian and gay artists in the United States. Edward A. Chamberlain’s provocative readings of geography, family, and society illuminate how art creates community, challenges orthodoxies, and works to transform our lives.”— Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Professor of American Culture, Romance Languages, and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan
“Through an analysis of intimate, quotidian, and unassuming spaces, Imagining Latinx Intimacies presents a timely analysis of Latinx LGBTQ artists and authors creating new artistic and virtual spaces to cultivate intimacy, community, and connections. Chamberlain deftly illustrates how Latinx LGBTQ people challenge the imposition of U.S.-based heteronormativity while creating spaces that celebrate and nourish queer intimacy.” — Alexandra Gonzenbach Perkins, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Texas State University
“Imagining Latinx Intimacies explores brilliantly the connectivities between Latinx gender and sexual identities and the formulation of new sites of intimate spatiality, redefining what it means to be queer and Latino/a/x in Latin America and across the Latin American diaspora in the US. Through insightful and probing analyses of poetry, short fiction, personal narrative, film, and visual art, Edward Chamberlain examines alternative queer/Latinx worlds in the making from reformulations of home space to the crafting of public spaces of intimacy and community resistant to racism, homophobia, transphobia, displacement, and the effects of colonisation. A major contribution to comparative queer studies that investigates new spaces of belonging that have emerged as critical responses to damaging and oppressive social relations.” — William J Spurlin, Professor of English and Vice-Dean, College of Business, Arts & Social Sciences, Brunel University London
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The UW Tacoma Library is very proud of your accomplishments, Ed Chamberlain. Congratulations!
“Imagining Latinx Intimacies addresses the ways that artists and writers resist the social forces of colonialism, displacement, and oppression through crafting incisive and inspiring responses to the problems that queer Latinx peoples encounter in both daily lives and representation such as art, film, poetry, popular culture, and stories. Instead of keeping quiet, queer Latinx artists and writers have spoken up as a way of challenging stereotypes, prejudice, and the lived experiences of estrangement and physical violence. Artistic thinkers such as Gloria Anzaldúa, Frances Negrón-Muntaner, and Rane Arroyo have challenged such socio-political problems by imagining intimate social and intellectual spaces that resist the status quo like homophobic norms, laws, and policies that hurt families and communities. Building on the intellectual thought of researchers such as Jorge Duany, Adriana de Souza e Silva, and José Esteban Muñoz, this book explains how the imagined spaces of Latinx LGBTQ peoples are blueprints for addressing our tumultuous present and creating a better future.” – Rowman & Littlefield