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Guera

By (author) Rebecca Gaydos
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Omnidawn Publishing, Richmond, CA, United States
Published: 15th Nov 2016
Dimensions: w 152mm h 229mm d 6mm
Weight: 126g
ISBN-10: 163243024X
ISBN-13: 9781632430243
Barcode No: 9781632430243
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Synopsis
Invoking a Mexican slang term that translates roughly as "white girl," Guera considers how the body's meaning as a racialized, gendered, and sexualized surface shifts as it crosses linguistic and national borders. Gaydos's disarmingly direct addresses slip between the spaces of story and reality, traversing the many meanings of "appearance": not only the physical image and its attendant assumptions, but also the act of arriving or becoming visible. Moving between Los Angeles, Oaxaca, Mexico City, and Talcott, Virginia, Guera traces the way touristic desire, folklore, and stereotype transform the languages we speak and the bodies we inhabit.

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