Racial Immanence - Chicanx Bodies beyond Representation (Lopez Marissa K.)(Paperback / softback)

Explores the how, why, and what of contemporary Chicanx
culture, including punk rock, literary fiction, photography, mass graves, and
digital and experimental installation artRacial Immanence
attempts to unravel a Gordian knot at the center of the study of race and
discourse: it seeks to loosen the constraints that the politics of racial
representation put on interpretive methods and on our understanding of race
itself. Marissa K. L pez argues that reading Chicanx literary and cultural
texts primarily for the ways they represent Chicanxness only reinscribes the
very racial logic that such texts ostensibly set out to undo.Racial Immanence
proposes to read differently; instead of focusing on representation, it asks what
Chicanx texts do, what they produce in the world, and specifically how they
produce access to the
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