An Auto-Ethnography of Relational Knowledge Production

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ID2805195
AuthorsAna-Maurine Lara (ana-maurine lara is currently Associate Professor at the University of Oregon, in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume135
Issue536
Pages202-210
Publication date2022-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of American Folklore (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-8715 • E-ISSN: 1535-1882
PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5406/15351882.135.536.07
OpenAlexW4285048054
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited29

This essay is an auto-ethnographic narrative of relational knowledge production. I argue that examining the ways in which we guard the boundaries of the normal has implications for how we might theorize Latinx folklore studies, specifically with regard to questions of sexuality, gender, and race. I discuss several critiques articulated by Black, Indigenous, and Latin American LGBTQ+ activists and scholars about the idea of the "queer," the "quír," and the "cuir

Art · Ethnography · Folklore · Guard (computer science) · Human sexuality · Indigenous · Knowledge production · Literature · Narrative · Queer · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Gender Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies · Media, Gender, and Advertising

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