Art Comes for the Archbishop

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ID4052378
AuthorsLuz Calvo (0000-0003-0366-7145, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume19
IssueS1
Pages169-195
Publication date2020-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMeridians (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1536-6936 • E-ISSN: 1547-8424
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/15366936-8565946
OpenAlexW3121065621
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited22

Inspired by the Chicana feminist artist Alma López's Our Lady (1999), this essay explores Chicana cultural and psychic investments in representations of the Virgin of Guadalupe. As an image of the suffering mother, the Virgin of Guadalupe is omnipresent in Mexican-American visual culture. Her image has been refigured by several generations of Chicana feminist artists, including Alma López. Chicana feminist reclaiming of the Virgin, however, has been fraught with controversy. Chicana feminist cultural work-such as the art of Alma López, performances by Selena Quintanilla, and writings by Sandra Cisneros and John Rechy-expand the queer and Chicana identifications and desires, and contest narrow, patriarchal nationalisms. By deploying critical race psychoanalysis and semiotics, we can unpack the libidinal investments in the brown female body, as seen in both in popular investments in protecting the Catholic version of the Virgin of Guadalupe and Chicana feminist reinterpretations

Aesthetics · Archbishop · Art · CONTEST · Political science · Psychic · Queer · Sociology · Classics · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · Historical Art and Culture Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity

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