{"title":"Little Man Walks to Church in Lodi CA While Praising God (1998)","authors":"Andrés Montoya","doi":"10.2979/chiricu.7.1.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/chiricu.7.1.09","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":240236,"journal":{"name":"Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128612217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Poetry of Andrés Montoya: Mystic Homo Sacer","authors":"Stephanie Fetta","doi":"10.2979/chiricu.7.1.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/chiricu.7.1.05","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:I argue that the renowned Chicano poet Andrés Montoya (1968–1999) is a mystic poet. Lyrically on par with Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Teresa of Avila, Rumi, and Meister Eckhart, Montoya’s mystic poetic expression develops and is portrayed via the intelligent, communicative body (the soma); the same entity that simultaneously expresses the weight of social chains in which his poetic speaker and his community are ensconced. I argue that Montoya’s poetic subject is a communal soma, biblical with the force of Divine Sophia and the Mayan principle of In Lak’ech. Montoya crystallizes a decolonizing poetic subjectivity of a collective spiritual aspirant inspired by Chicanx liberation theology. I argue that Montoya’s collection the ice worker sings and other poems is a spiritual journey of the soma, of a collective Chicano homo sacer evolving his mystic communion with God.","PeriodicalId":240236,"journal":{"name":"Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116720629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Montserrat Huguet and Esperanza Cerdá, Miradas encontradas: Sociedades y ciudadanías de España y Estados Unidos","authors":"James Mesiti","doi":"10.2979/chiricu.7.1.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/chiricu.7.1.19","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":240236,"journal":{"name":"Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130592389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"José F. Aranda Jr., The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848–1948","authors":"J. Cutler","doi":"10.2979/chiricu.7.1.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/chiricu.7.1.21","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":240236,"journal":{"name":"Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures","volume":"215 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130852479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Technologies of Contagion: Spores, Viruses, and the Queer Pleasures of Apocalypse","authors":"Elizabeth A. Rodríguez","doi":"10.2979/chiricu.7.1.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/chiricu.7.1.07","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay theorizes the apocalyptic in three recent Latina gothic fictions. Zombie mushrooms are at the heart of the Doyle family heteropatriarchal colonial enterprise in Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic. The rabies virus is weaponized as a justification for militarized control of East LA—and in particular over the bodies of young Chicanas—at the height of the Chicano Movement in Helena Maria Viramontes’s Their Dogs Came with Them. A viral apocalypse drives Carmen Maria Machado’s short story “Inventory” forward across sexual and other forms of queer intimacy, leaving the narrator to wonder whether the world will spin faster without people on it. While in each of these instances tropes of contagion represent a threat against human life, viruses and mushrooms are also perfect articulations of liminality—neither clearly animal nor plant, troubling taxonomic common sense, threatening contagion and annihilation. They are biological analogues to both the wild and emancipatory queer and Chicana feminist borderlands imagined by poets and scholars alike, and this essay speculates on their theoretical possibilities as tropes of destruction and creation. The viral and the fungal represent a biotechnology of transformation that decenters liberal humanism and promises moments of apocalyptic emergence of a queer, Latina utopia.","PeriodicalId":240236,"journal":{"name":"Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134065707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What My Mother Knew","authors":"L. A. Guerrero","doi":"10.2979/chiricu.7.1.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/chiricu.7.1.14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":240236,"journal":{"name":"Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130261967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}