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"Nudge A Mexican And She Or He Will Break Out With A Story": Complicating Mexican Immigrant Masculinities Through Counternarrative Storytelling, Berenice Villela Apr 2012

"Nudge A Mexican And She Or He Will Break Out With A Story": Complicating Mexican Immigrant Masculinities Through Counternarrative Storytelling, Berenice Villela

Scripps Senior Theses

In this thesis, I explore Latino masculinities and contest their uniformity through transforming an oral history conducted with my father into a collection of short stories. Following storytelling traditions of Latino/Mexican culture, I converted an oral history interviews with my dad into a collection of short stories. From these short stories I extracted themes relating to the micro and macro manifestations of gender policing. Drawing from Judith Butler's Theory of performativity and Gloria Anzaldua's theory of Borderland identities, I rethink masculinity and offer Jose Esteban Munoz's theory of disidentification. With these theories in conversation, I analyze the themes of the …


Huetamo, Michoacan, Eribertha Gomez Jan 2012

Huetamo, Michoacan, Eribertha Gomez

Stories of Immigration: Oral History Workshop Papers

No abstract provided.


Cueramara, Guanajuato, Sara Victoria Lopez Jan 2012

Cueramara, Guanajuato, Sara Victoria Lopez

Stories of Immigration: Oral History Workshop Papers

No abstract provided.


Melting Pot, Megan Day Jan 2012

Melting Pot, Megan Day

Stories of Immigration: Oral History Workshop Papers

No abstract provided.


Narino, Colombia, Sarah Zumba Jan 2012

Narino, Colombia, Sarah Zumba

Stories of Immigration: Oral History Workshop Papers

No abstract provided.