México's nobodies : the cultural legacy of the soldadera and Afro-Mexican women /

México's nobodies : the cultural legacy of the soldadera and Afro-Mexican women /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Arce, B. Christine, 1974- (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017]
Series:Genders in the global south.
Subjects:
Women > Mexico > History.
Women, Black > Mexico > History.
Racially mixed women > Mexico > History.
Women soldiers > Mexico > History.
Women revolutionaries > Mexico > History.
Sex role > Mexico > History.
Women in art.
Blacks in art.
Art and society > Mexico > History.
Mexico > Race relations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The paradox of invisibility
  • Part One. Entre adelitas y cucarachas : the soldadera as trope in the Mexican Revolution
  • The soldadera and the making of revolutionary spaces
  • The many faces of the soldadera and the adelita complex
  • Beyond the "custom of her sex and country"
  • Part Two. The Blacks in the closet
  • Black magic and the Inquisition : the legend of La Mulata de Córdoba and the case of Antonia de Soto
  • "Dios pinta como quiere" : blackness and redress in Mexican golden age film
  • The music of the Afro-Mexican universe and the dialectics of Son
  • Conclusion: To be expressed otherwise.