Suzanne Bost
Biographic Data
| ID | 454821 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suzanne Bost |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suzanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Bost |
| SIGNATURE | BOST S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Viruses, Vaccines, and the Erotics of Risk in Latinx HIV Stories and Covid-19
In 2019, I published Shared Selves: Latinx Memoir and Ethical Alternatives to Humanism (University of Illinois Press), in which I discuss contagion as a metaphor for embracing our shared materiality with others. Six months later, during the Covid-19 pandemic, neighbors were crossing streets to avoid each other. Social distancing is, counterintuitively, asking us to view separation and seclusion as forms of solidarity. But how can we be solid if w…
Shared Selves
Shared Selves
Writing about marginalized lives has the power to shift norms. In telling their own stories, John Rechy, Aurora Levins Morales, Gloria Anzaldúa, and other Latinx writers make visible experiences and bodies that are rarely at the center of the stories we read, and they dramatize the complexity of human agencies and responsibilities. Yet the memoirs this book analyzes move beyond focus on the human as their subjects' personal histories intertwine w…
Shared Ecologies and Healing Justice in the Work of Aurora Levins Morales
On 8 October 2015, I interviewed Aurora Levins Morales in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Levins Morales was prominent among the first generation of US feminist of color writers in the 1980s; her work today is just as groundbreaking but differently so. She was one of the original contributors to This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (first published by Gloria Anzaldúa and Cherríe Moraga in 1981); her other acclaimed work from t…
Practicing Yoga / Embodying Feminism / Shape-shifting
The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature
Introduction Part 1: Identities 1. Latinidad Marta Caminero-Santangelo 2. Mestizaje Rafael Perez-Torres 3. Afro-Latino/a Literature and Identity William Luis 4. Urban Spaces Raul Homero Villa 5. Feminisms Patricia Marina Trujillo 6. Masculinities Jennifer Domino Rudolph 7 . Queerness Sandra K. Soto 7. Illness Suzanne Bost 8. Chicana/o & Latina/o Literary Studies In Mexico Marisa Belausteguigoitia Rius and Maria del Socorro Gutierrez Magallanes 9.…
Encarnación
Mestizaje
Gloria Anzaldúa's Mestiza Pain
Gloria Anzaldúa's mestiza consciousness has been celebrated by critics of diverse methodologies and applied to discussions of hybridity, borders, and difference around the world. Lost in these wide and varied applications are the conquest and rape, and the regulation of national and individual boundaries, that are the historical origins of mestizaje. I focus on an aspect of Anzaldúa's work that is often overlooked and that has become even more si…
Mulattas and Mestizas
In this broadly conceived exploration of how people represent identity in the Americas, Suzanne Bost argues that mixture has been central to the definition of race in the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean since the nineteenth century. Her study is particularly relevant in an era that promotes mixed-race musicians, actors, sports heroes, and supermodels as icons of a "new" America. Bost challenges the popular media's notion that a new mille…
"Be deceived if ya wanna be foolish"
“Be deceived if ya wanna be foolish”: (Re)constructing Body, Genre, and Gender in Feminist Rap Suzanne Bost Often black people can only say in tone, in nuance, in the set of the mouth, or in the shifting of the eyes what language alone cannot say. Perhaps because of the ambivalence we feel about language, we must put the body itself to use. The hearer must pay attention, take in with all the senses, so that the act of speaking and hearing moves c…
Fluidity without Postmodernism
Mestizaje
Viruses, Vaccines, and the Erotics of Risk in Latinx HIV Stories and Covid-19
In 2019, I published Shared Selves: Latinx Memoir and Ethical Alternatives to Humanism (University of Illinois Press), in which I discuss contagion as a metaphor for embracing our shared materiality with others. Six months later, during the Covid-19 pandemic, neighbors were crossing streets to avoid each other. Social distancing is, counterintuitively, asking us to view separation and seclusion as forms of solidarity. But how can we be solid if w…
Fluidity without Postmodernism
"Be deceived if ya wanna be foolish"
“Be deceived if ya wanna be foolish”: (Re)constructing Body, Genre, and Gender in Feminist Rap Suzanne Bost Often black people can only say in tone, in nuance, in the set of the mouth, or in the shifting of the eyes what language alone cannot say. Perhaps because of the ambivalence we feel about language, we must put the body itself to use. The hearer must pay attention, take in with all the senses, so that the act of speaking and hearing moves c…
Mulattas and Mestizas
In this broadly conceived exploration of how people represent identity in the Americas, Suzanne Bost argues that mixture has been central to the definition of race in the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean since the nineteenth century. Her study is particularly relevant in an era that promotes mixed-race musicians, actors, sports heroes, and supermodels as icons of a "new" America. Bost challenges the popular media's notion that a new mille…
Gloria Anzaldúa's Mestiza Pain
Gloria Anzaldúa's mestiza consciousness has been celebrated by critics of diverse methodologies and applied to discussions of hybridity, borders, and difference around the world. Lost in these wide and varied applications are the conquest and rape, and the regulation of national and individual boundaries, that are the historical origins of mestizaje. I focus on an aspect of Anzaldúa's work that is often overlooked and that has become even more si…
Mestizaje
Encarnación
The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature
Introduction Part 1: Identities 1. Latinidad Marta Caminero-Santangelo 2. Mestizaje Rafael Perez-Torres 3. Afro-Latino/a Literature and Identity William Luis 4. Urban Spaces Raul Homero Villa 5. Feminisms Patricia Marina Trujillo 6. Masculinities Jennifer Domino Rudolph 7 . Queerness Sandra K. Soto 7. Illness Suzanne Bost 8. Chicana/o & Latina/o Literary Studies In Mexico Marisa Belausteguigoitia Rius and Maria del Socorro Gutierrez Magallanes 9.…
Practicing Yoga / Embodying Feminism / Shape-shifting
Shared Ecologies and Healing Justice in the Work of Aurora Levins Morales
On 8 October 2015, I interviewed Aurora Levins Morales in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Levins Morales was prominent among the first generation of US feminist of color writers in the 1980s; her work today is just as groundbreaking but differently so. She was one of the original contributors to This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (first published by Gloria Anzaldúa and Cherríe Moraga in 1981); her other acclaimed work from t…
Shared Selves
Shared Selves
Writing about marginalized lives has the power to shift norms. In telling their own stories, John Rechy, Aurora Levins Morales, Gloria Anzaldúa, and other Latinx writers make visible experiences and bodies that are rarely at the center of the stories we read, and they dramatize the complexity of human agencies and responsibilities. Yet the memoirs this book analyzes move beyond focus on the human as their subjects' personal histories intertwine w…
Viruses, Vaccines, and the Erotics of Risk in Latinx HIV Stories and Covid-19
In 2019, I published Shared Selves: Latinx Memoir and Ethical Alternatives to Humanism (University of Illinois Press), in which I discuss contagion as a metaphor for embracing our shared materiality with others. Six months later, during the Covid-19 pandemic, neighbors were crossing streets to avoid each other. Social distancing is, counterintuitively, asking us to view separation and seclusion as forms of solidarity. But how can we be solid if w…
Sociology (9 works) · Art (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · American literature (5 works) · History (5 works) · History and criticism (5 works) · History and criticism (5 works)