Christofer A Rodelo
Biographic Data
| ID | 1266928 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christofer A Rodelo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christofer A |
| FAMILY NAME | Rodelo |
| SIGNATURE | RODELO C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Queer Losses of Latinx Orpheus
This essay reexamines the New York City Ballet's 1948 production of Orpheus, centering two of its major dancers: Nicholas Magallanes and Francisco Moncion. These two queer Latinx figures (from Mexico and the Dominican Republic, respectively) performed in the roles of Orpheus and the Dark Angel, captivating audiences and critics alike with their intimate choreography. The essay indexes this performance as an early example of how queer Latinx perfo…
How Do You Solve a Problem like Loreta
This essay reflects on the politics of recovering a trans Latinx past through an examination on the nineteenth-century figure Loreta Velazquez. She was a Cuban-born woman who migrated to the United States and masqueraded as a Confederate soldier during the American Civil War. Her life, which she chronicled in A Narrative of the Exploits, Adventures, and Travels of Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Otherwise Known as Lieutenant Harry T. Buford, Conf…
A.M. Hernandez and the Global Details of Blackface Minstrelsy
Cuban-born A.M. Hernandez traveled to the United States in the late 1840s and performed in various US blackface minstrel troupes from the 1850s through the 1870s. His movements across Cuban and US borders show how his participation in blackface minstrelsy reflected global logics of race and antiblackness, pushing existing studies of blackface to consider subjects whose lives exist transnationally
Reenacting Latinidad and remembering Loreta
This essay explores the processes of Latinx identity formation in performance-based recollections of the nineteenth-century figure Loreta Velazquez. Velazquez has received increased attention as a figure of the Latinx past, a vexed affiliation due to her pro-Confederate leanings. To understand how Velazquez is imagined as Latinx, I introduce the concept of Latinx reenactment , which characterizes performance-based practices of summoning figures o…
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September 01 2017 More Books Christofer A. Rodelo Christofer A. Rodelo Christofer A. Rodelo is a doctoral student in American Studies at Harvard University. His dissertation project is a transnational study of 19th-century Latinx and Afro Latinx performance and aesthetic cultures. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Christofer A. Rodelo Christofer A. Rodelo is a d…
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September 01 2017 More Books Christofer A. Rodelo Christofer A. Rodelo Christofer A. Rodelo is a doctoral student in American Studies at Harvard University. His dissertation project is a transnational study of 19th-century Latinx and Afro Latinx performance and aesthetic cultures. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Christofer A. Rodelo Christofer A. Rodelo is a d…
Reenacting Latinidad and remembering Loreta
This essay explores the processes of Latinx identity formation in performance-based recollections of the nineteenth-century figure Loreta Velazquez. Velazquez has received increased attention as a figure of the Latinx past, a vexed affiliation due to her pro-Confederate leanings. To understand how Velazquez is imagined as Latinx, I introduce the concept of Latinx reenactment , which characterizes performance-based practices of summoning figures o…
The Queer Losses of Latinx Orpheus
This essay reexamines the New York City Ballet's 1948 production of Orpheus, centering two of its major dancers: Nicholas Magallanes and Francisco Moncion. These two queer Latinx figures (from Mexico and the Dominican Republic, respectively) performed in the roles of Orpheus and the Dark Angel, captivating audiences and critics alike with their intimate choreography. The essay indexes this performance as an early example of how queer Latinx perfo…
How Do You Solve a Problem like Loreta
This essay reflects on the politics of recovering a trans Latinx past through an examination on the nineteenth-century figure Loreta Velazquez. She was a Cuban-born woman who migrated to the United States and masqueraded as a Confederate soldier during the American Civil War. Her life, which she chronicled in A Narrative of the Exploits, Adventures, and Travels of Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Otherwise Known as Lieutenant Harry T. Buford, Conf…
A.M. Hernandez and the Global Details of Blackface Minstrelsy
Cuban-born A.M. Hernandez traveled to the United States in the late 1840s and performed in various US blackface minstrel troupes from the 1850s through the 1870s. His movements across Cuban and US borders show how his participation in blackface minstrelsy reflected global logics of race and antiblackness, pushing existing studies of blackface to consider subjects whose lives exist transnationally
Latin American and Latino Studies (3 works) · Cuban History and Society (2 works) · Theater, Performance, and Music History (2 works) · Art (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (1 work) · Blackface (1 work) · Citation (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Download (1 work)