Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents viii
3. Illustrations xi
4. Preface xv
5. Acknowledgments xxi
6. 1. The social body of love: crafting decolonial methodologies 1
7. 2. Eros ideologies and methodology of the oppressed 17
8. 3. Long Nguyen: flesh of the inscrutable 24
9. 4. Hidden avant-gardes: contemporary u.s. Latina/o art 27
10. 5. Freedom and gender in ester Hernández’s Libertad 34
11. 6. ’Ginas in the atelier 40
12. 7. The poetry of embodiment: series and variation in Linda Arreola’s vaguely Chicana 52
13. 8. Art and museums 56
14. 9. The @-erotics in Alex Donis’s my cathedral 70
15. 10. Con o sin permiso (with or without permission): Chicana badgirls: Las hociconas 77
16. 11. Maestrapeace: picturing the power of women’s histories of creativity 82
17. 12. Decolonizing self-portraits of Frida Kahlo, Ana Mendieta, and Yreina d. Cervántez 91
18. 13. Undead Darwinism and the fault lines of neocolonialism in Latina/o art worlds 112
19. 14. The inviolate erotic in the paintings of Liliana Wilson 126
20. 15. The performance of spirituality and visionary politics in the work of Gloria Anzaldúa 133
21. 16. Daughters shaking earth 147
22. 17. Fashioning decolonial optics: days of the dead walking altars and Calavera fashion shows in Latina/o Los Angeles 155
23. 18. On Jean Pierre Larochette and Yael Lurie’s water songs 174
24. 19. Prayers for the planet: reweaving the natural and the social: Consuelo Jimenez Underwood’s welcome to flower-landia 179
25. 20. “Undocunation,” creativity, integrity 192
26. 21. Writing with crooked lines 201
27. Notes 211
28. References 245
29. Index 263