Marissa López
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3625341 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Marissa López |
| NOMBRES | Marissa |
| APELLIDO | López |
| FIRMA | LOPEZ M |
| AFILIACIONES | Universidad del Valle de Guatemala |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1919-7109 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Latinx Literature in Transition, 1848–1992
This book introduces scholars and students of literature to previously neglected or unknown works of literature-such as José Rodríguez Cerna's chronicles and Leonor Villegas de Magnón's memoir of the Mexican Revolution-as well as new approaches to canonical texts by Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Julia de Burgos, Tomás Rivera, and Gloria Anzaldúa. It challenges how previous generations of scholars have understood American modernity by rejecting a s…
Latinx Literature in Transition, 1848-1892
Crossings in Nineteenth-Century American Culture
Introduction. Santa Anna’s Wooden Leg and Other Things about the Chicanx Body; or, What Are We Really Talking about When We Talk about Chicanx Literature?
The introduction takes issue with the tendency of Chicanx and Latinx studies to read representationally. Beginning instead from the premise that both text and bodies are part of the physical stuff of the world, the author redefines reading as a mode of physical interaction with text that produces moments of affective chicanidad. To see reading as the intellectual processing of represented things is to approach text with expectations and preconcep…
Waste
Chapter 4 opens with a discussion of the mass graves of unidentified immigrants discovered in South Texas in 2014. How, confronted with these decayed, dismembered border bodies, can literature and art move us beyond horror into a more just tomorrow? To answer, the author turns to two Chicanx science fiction novels: Morales’s The Rag Doll Plagues (1992) and Pita and Sánchez’s Lunar Braceros (2009). Morales’s novel begins in colonial Mexico with a …
Face
In Cecile Pineda’s novel Face (1985), protagonist Helio Cara loses his face in a tragic accident. The novel documents the aftermath of his misfortune, as Helio grapples with his changing social world and strives to remake himself, piecing together both his face and the story of his life. In Face, Pineda works through the complex nexus of visible and invisible, focusing on the present absence of the human body and how Helio is variously seen and o…
Race
This chapter begins with the discovery, in 1790, of the Aztec Sun Stone in Mexico City and a description of indigenous Mexican conceptions of time and history. The chapter uses the contrast between these and European notions of time and subjectivity to frame its argument about Gilb’s narrative and temporal play, using the scientific ambiguity surrounding affect to outline a nonrepresentational way of reading race, a strategy built on “racial imma…
Coda. Accordions of Abjection
In her conclusion, the author asks what kind of ethical future we can hope for when so many bodies are threatened. What good does reading do anyone? Throughout Racial Immanence, the author argues for reading as an intra-action of body and text. Granting the immanence of race reconfigures the space and time of reading and writing; it posits both as world-making performances that reimagine the social. Reading, the author argues, is the most resista…
Place
Sheila Ortiz Taylor’s Coachella (1998) and Gil Cuadros’s City of God (1994) challenge readers to consider AIDS not as racial allegory but as the sublime limit of human experience. The chapter makes this argument by reading Taylor and Cuadros as textual embodiments of barbasco, a wild Mexican yam from which Russell Marker, an American chemist, was able to synthesize diosgenin, which can be turned into synthetic progesterone, from which all other s…
Racial Immanence
Racial Immanence is about how and why artists use the body in contemporary Chicanx cultural production. The book explores disease, disability, abjection, and sense experience in Chicanx visual, verbal, and performing arts from the late 1980s to the early 1990s in order to ask whether it is possible to think of race as something other than a human quality. This attention to the body is a way to push back against two distinct modes of identity poli…
Why I Still Believe in Chicanx Studies
While an inclusive Latinx studies has real intellectual justification, the move to craft Latinx rather than specifically Chicanx scholarly questions relies on presentism and adumbrates conflicts over class and citizenship. Drawing on her personal experience justifying the use of Chicano in her first book to her academic press editors, the author meditates on the politics of Latinx versus Chicanx, the pitfalls and promises of nationalist discourse…
Maya phytomedicine in Guatemala – Can cooperative research change ethnopharmacological paradigms
Soy Emo, Y Qué? Sad Kids, Punkera Dykes and the Latin@ Public Sphere
In March and April of 2008, emo youth in Mexican and Latin American metropoles were vulnerable to violent, physical attacks, which the world witnessed, aghast, via YouTube. Journalists, pundits, and cultural commentators around the globe wondered, first, how to define "emo"; second, how to explain its presence in Mexico and Latin America; and third, whence such a violent reaction? This essay tackles those questions, and tries to think through emo…
There Was a Woman
Book Review| March 01 2011 There Was a Woman: La Llorona from Folklore to Popular Culture; Chicana Sexuality and Gender: Cultural Refiguring in Literature, Oral History, and Art Marissa López Marissa López Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 217–219. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-081 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Marissa López; There Was a…
The Emergence of Mexican America
Book Review| June 01 2009 The Emergence of Mexican America: Recovering Stories of Mexican Peoplehood in U.S. Culture; The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary Marissa López Marissa López Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 405–407. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-014 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Marissa Ló…
The Language of Resistance
The Language of Resistance: Alurista’s Global Poetics Get access Marissa López Marissa López University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 33, Issue 1, March 2008, Pages 93–115, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/33.1.93 Published: 01 March 2008
Spain's Long Shadow
Book Review| June 01 2007 Spain's Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire; The Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel Marissa López Marissa López Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2007) 79 (2): 430–432. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-014 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Marissa López; Spain's Long…
On Chicana/o Literary Form
Research Article| September 01 2007 On Chicana/o Literary Form Marissa López Marissa López Marissa López is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of the forthcoming The Political Economy of Early Chicano Historiography and is currently working on book about Chicano transnationalism and narrative form. She can be reached at [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: This …
Chicana/o Literature
Research Article| September 01 2007 Chicana/o Literature: Theoretically Speaking, Formally Reading Ana Castillo's Sapogonia Marissa López Marissa López Marissa López is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of the forthcoming The Political Economy of Early Chicano Historiography and is currently working on book about Chicano transnationalism and narrative form. She can be reached at mklo…
Soy Emo, Y Qué? Sad Kids, Punkera Dykes and the Latin@ Public Sphere
In March and April of 2008, emo youth in Mexican and Latin American metropoles were vulnerable to violent, physical attacks, which the world witnessed, aghast, via YouTube. Journalists, pundits, and cultural commentators around the globe wondered, first, how to define "emo"; second, how to explain its presence in Mexico and Latin America; and third, whence such a violent reaction? This essay tackles those questions, and tries to think through emo…
Chicana/o Literature
Research Article| September 01 2007 Chicana/o Literature: Theoretically Speaking, Formally Reading Ana Castillo's Sapogonia Marissa López Marissa López Marissa López is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of the forthcoming The Political Economy of Early Chicano Historiography and is currently working on book about Chicano transnationalism and narrative form. She can be reached at mklo…
Spain's Long Shadow
Book Review| June 01 2007 Spain's Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire; The Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel Marissa López Marissa López Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2007) 79 (2): 430–432. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-014 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Marissa López; Spain's Long…
On Chicana/o Literary Form
Research Article| September 01 2007 On Chicana/o Literary Form Marissa López Marissa López Marissa López is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of the forthcoming The Political Economy of Early Chicano Historiography and is currently working on book about Chicano transnationalism and narrative form. She can be reached at [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: This …
Chicana/o Literature
Research Article| September 01 2007 Chicana/o Literature: Theoretically Speaking, Formally Reading Ana Castillo's Sapogonia Marissa López Marissa López Marissa López is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of the forthcoming The Political Economy of Early Chicano Historiography and is currently working on book about Chicano transnationalism and narrative form. She can be reached at mklo…
The Language of Resistance
The Language of Resistance: Alurista’s Global Poetics Get access Marissa López Marissa López University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 33, Issue 1, March 2008, Pages 93–115, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/33.1.93 Published: 01 March 2008
The Emergence of Mexican America
Book Review| June 01 2009 The Emergence of Mexican America: Recovering Stories of Mexican Peoplehood in U.S. Culture; The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary Marissa López Marissa López Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 405–407. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-014 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Marissa Ló…
There Was a Woman
Book Review| March 01 2011 There Was a Woman: La Llorona from Folklore to Popular Culture; Chicana Sexuality and Gender: Cultural Refiguring in Literature, Oral History, and Art Marissa López Marissa López Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 217–219. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-081 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Marissa López; There Was a…
Soy Emo, Y Qué? Sad Kids, Punkera Dykes and the Latin@ Public Sphere
In March and April of 2008, emo youth in Mexican and Latin American metropoles were vulnerable to violent, physical attacks, which the world witnessed, aghast, via YouTube. Journalists, pundits, and cultural commentators around the globe wondered, first, how to define "emo"; second, how to explain its presence in Mexico and Latin America; and third, whence such a violent reaction? This essay tackles those questions, and tries to think through emo…
Maya phytomedicine in Guatemala – Can cooperative research change ethnopharmacological paradigms
Why I Still Believe in Chicanx Studies
While an inclusive Latinx studies has real intellectual justification, the move to craft Latinx rather than specifically Chicanx scholarly questions relies on presentism and adumbrates conflicts over class and citizenship. Drawing on her personal experience justifying the use of Chicano in her first book to her academic press editors, the author meditates on the politics of Latinx versus Chicanx, the pitfalls and promises of nationalist discourse…
Introduction. Santa Anna’s Wooden Leg and Other Things about the Chicanx Body; or, What Are We Really Talking about When We Talk about Chicanx Literature?
The introduction takes issue with the tendency of Chicanx and Latinx studies to read representationally. Beginning instead from the premise that both text and bodies are part of the physical stuff of the world, the author redefines reading as a mode of physical interaction with text that produces moments of affective chicanidad. To see reading as the intellectual processing of represented things is to approach text with expectations and preconcep…
Waste
Chapter 4 opens with a discussion of the mass graves of unidentified immigrants discovered in South Texas in 2014. How, confronted with these decayed, dismembered border bodies, can literature and art move us beyond horror into a more just tomorrow? To answer, the author turns to two Chicanx science fiction novels: Morales’s The Rag Doll Plagues (1992) and Pita and Sánchez’s Lunar Braceros (2009). Morales’s novel begins in colonial Mexico with a …
Face
In Cecile Pineda’s novel Face (1985), protagonist Helio Cara loses his face in a tragic accident. The novel documents the aftermath of his misfortune, as Helio grapples with his changing social world and strives to remake himself, piecing together both his face and the story of his life. In Face, Pineda works through the complex nexus of visible and invisible, focusing on the present absence of the human body and how Helio is variously seen and o…
Race
This chapter begins with the discovery, in 1790, of the Aztec Sun Stone in Mexico City and a description of indigenous Mexican conceptions of time and history. The chapter uses the contrast between these and European notions of time and subjectivity to frame its argument about Gilb’s narrative and temporal play, using the scientific ambiguity surrounding affect to outline a nonrepresentational way of reading race, a strategy built on “racial imma…
Coda. Accordions of Abjection
In her conclusion, the author asks what kind of ethical future we can hope for when so many bodies are threatened. What good does reading do anyone? Throughout Racial Immanence, the author argues for reading as an intra-action of body and text. Granting the immanence of race reconfigures the space and time of reading and writing; it posits both as world-making performances that reimagine the social. Reading, the author argues, is the most resista…
Place
Sheila Ortiz Taylor’s Coachella (1998) and Gil Cuadros’s City of God (1994) challenge readers to consider AIDS not as racial allegory but as the sublime limit of human experience. The chapter makes this argument by reading Taylor and Cuadros as textual embodiments of barbasco, a wild Mexican yam from which Russell Marker, an American chemist, was able to synthesize diosgenin, which can be turned into synthetic progesterone, from which all other s…
Racial Immanence
Racial Immanence is about how and why artists use the body in contemporary Chicanx cultural production. The book explores disease, disability, abjection, and sense experience in Chicanx visual, verbal, and performing arts from the late 1980s to the early 1990s in order to ask whether it is possible to think of race as something other than a human quality. This attention to the body is a way to push back against two distinct modes of identity poli…
Crossings in Nineteenth-Century American Culture
Latinx Literature in Transition, 1848–1992
This book introduces scholars and students of literature to previously neglected or unknown works of literature-such as José Rodríguez Cerna's chronicles and Leonor Villegas de Magnón's memoir of the Mexican Revolution-as well as new approaches to canonical texts by Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Julia de Burgos, Tomás Rivera, and Gloria Anzaldúa. It challenges how previous generations of scholars have understood American modernity by rejecting a s…
Latinx Literature in Transition, 1848-1892
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