Adriana Estill
Biographic Data
| ID | 696740 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adriana Estill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adriana |
| FAMILY NAME | Estill |
| SIGNATURE | ESTILL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Yearning to Belong, Drawn to Be Mexican
This essay analyzes two contemporary Hollywood films-Fools Rush In (1997) and McFarland, USA (2015)-to highlight the mainstream imaginary of the relationship between Mexicanness and whiteness. We argue that these fi lms reveal how the existence and persistence of an emotionally impoverished whiteness becomes visible beside, against, and through Mexican affective fullness. We develop the term "white lack" to represent how whiteness, in all its mod…
From Big Screens to Pasarelas
This essay reviews the following works:Making Up the Difference: Women, Beauty, and Direct Selling in Ecuador. By Erynn Masi de Casanova. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011. Pp. xix + 239. $55.00 cloth: ISBN: 9780292723863.Dolores del Río: Beauty in Light and Shade. By Linda B. Hall. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013. Pp. xvi + 358. $60 cloth. ISBN: 9780804784078.Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance…
Mexican Chicago in Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo
Building on current ethnographic and historical studies of Mexican Chicago as well as theories of transnational urbanism, this essay offers a reading of Sandra Cisneros’s novel Caramelo that documents and centers the way that ongoing physical and imagined connections to Mexico reshape Chicago’s urban environment materially, narratively, and socially, making it neither an American nor a Mexican place, but rather a liminal site within which a diffe…
Key terms in Latino/a cultural and literary studies
Closing the Telenovela's Borders
The popularity of the Latin American telenovela has engendered a number of studies that range in focus from content analysis to the consideration of the audience's reception. The ideological and economic interests of cultural production have also been considered, with a particular and well-developed focus on the representation of women and sexuality. However, while there have been some critics who have begun to delineate the national character of…
Mapping the Minefield
What is the direction of Chicano and Latino literary and cultural studies? The equivocal use of terms signals some of the uncertainty that this question raises.' While the books reviewed here reveal some trends or
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Closing the Telenovela's Borders
The popularity of the Latin American telenovela has engendered a number of studies that range in focus from content analysis to the consideration of the audience's reception. The ideological and economic interests of cultural production have also been considered, with a particular and well-developed focus on the representation of women and sexuality. However, while there have been some critics who have begun to delineate the national character of…
Mapping the Minefield
What is the direction of Chicano and Latino literary and cultural studies? The equivocal use of terms signals some of the uncertainty that this question raises.' While the books reviewed here reveal some trends or
Key terms in Latino/a cultural and literary studies
Mexican Chicago in Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo
Building on current ethnographic and historical studies of Mexican Chicago as well as theories of transnational urbanism, this essay offers a reading of Sandra Cisneros’s novel Caramelo that documents and centers the way that ongoing physical and imagined connections to Mexico reshape Chicago’s urban environment materially, narratively, and socially, making it neither an American nor a Mexican place, but rather a liminal site within which a diffe…
From Big Screens to Pasarelas
This essay reviews the following works:Making Up the Difference: Women, Beauty, and Direct Selling in Ecuador. By Erynn Masi de Casanova. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011. Pp. xix + 239. $55.00 cloth: ISBN: 9780292723863.Dolores del Río: Beauty in Light and Shade. By Linda B. Hall. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013. Pp. xvi + 358. $60 cloth. ISBN: 9780804784078.Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance…
Yearning to Belong, Drawn to Be Mexican
This essay analyzes two contemporary Hollywood films-Fools Rush In (1997) and McFarland, USA (2015)-to highlight the mainstream imaginary of the relationship between Mexicanness and whiteness. We argue that these fi lms reveal how the existence and persistence of an emotionally impoverished whiteness becomes visible beside, against, and through Mexican affective fullness. We develop the term "white lack" to represent how whiteness, in all its mod…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)