Introduction: Re-imagining Critical Approaches to Folklore and Popular Culture

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword: Assembling an Intersectional Pop Cultura Analytical Lens ix
4. Introduction: Re-imagining Critical Approaches to Folklore and Popular Culture 1
5. Part I. Visualizing Race
6. 1. A Thousand “Lines of Flight”: Collective Individuation and Racial Identity in Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black and Sense8 15
7. 2. Performing Cherokee Masculinity in The Doe Boy 33
8. 3. Truth, Justice, and the Mexican Way: Lucha Libre, Film, and Nationalism in Mexico 59
9. 4. Native American Irony: Survivance and the Subversion of Ethnography 76
10. Part II. Sounding Race
11. 5. (Re)imagining Indigenous Popular Culture 91
12. 6. My Tongue Is Divided into Two 110
13. 7. Performing Nation Diva Style in Lila Downs and Astrid Hadad’s La Tequilera 132
14. 8. (Dis)identifying with Shakira’s “Global Body”: A Path toward Rhythmic Affiliations beyond the Dichotomous Nation/Diaspora 152
15. 9. Voicing the Occult in Chicana/o Culture and Hybridity: Prayers and the Cholo-Goth Aesthetic 175
16. Part III. Racialization in Place
17. 10. Ugly Brown Bodies: Queering Desire in Machete 197
18. 11. “Bitch, how’d you make it this far?”: Strategic Enactments of White Femininity in The Walking Dead 225
19. 12. Bridge and Tunnel: Transcultural Border Crossings in The Bridge and Sicario 241
20. 13. Red Land, White Power, Blue Sky: Settler Colonialism and Indigeneity in Breaking Bad 262
21. Acknowledgments 279
22. Notes on Contributors 281
23. Index 285