{"product_id":"wild-tongues-1","title":"Wild Tongues","description":"\u003cp\u003eTracing the configuration of the slapstick, destitute \u003cem\u003ePeladita\/Peladito\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003ePachuca\/Pachuco\u003c\/em\u003e (depicted in flashy zoot suits) from 1928 to 2004, \u003ccite\u003eWild Tongues\u003c\/cite\u003e is an ambitious, extensive examination of social order in Mexican and Chicana\/o cultural productions in literature, theater, film, music, and performance art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n    \u003cp\u003eFrom the use of the \u003cem\u003ePeladita\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003ePeladito\u003c\/em\u003e as stock characters who criticized various aspects of the Mexican government in the 1920s and 1930s to contemporary performance art by María Elena Gaitán and Dan Guerrero, which yields a feminist and queer-studies interpretation, Rita Urquijo-Ruiz emphasizes the transnational capitalism at play in these comic voices. Her study encompasses both sides of the border, including the use of the \u003cem\u003ePachuca\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003ePachuco\u003c\/em\u003e as anti-establishment, marginal figures in the United States. The result is a historically grounded, interdisciplinary approach that reimagines the limitations of nation-centered thinking and reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n    \u003cp\u003eBeginning with Daniel Venegas’s 1928 novel, \u003ccite\u003eLas aventuras de don Chipote o Cuando los pericos mamen\u003c\/cite\u003e, Rita Urquijo-Ruiz’s \u003ccite\u003eWild Tongues\u003c\/cite\u003e demonstrates early uses of the Peladito to call attention to the brutal physical demands placed on the undocumented Mexican laborer. It explores \u003cem\u003eTeatro de Carpa\u003c\/em\u003e (tent theater) in-depth as well, bringing to light the experience of Mexican \u003cem\u003ePeladita \u003c\/em\u003eAmelia Wilhelmy, whose “La Willy” was famous for portraying a cross-dressing male soldier who criticizes the failed Revolution. In numerous other explorations such as these, the political, economic, and social power of creativity continually takes center stage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43572747403446,"sku":"9780292742949","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/missing-cover_7be8f623-105e-4802-b5d2-3c62b28c6e59.jpg?v=1746711875","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/wild-tongues-1","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}