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- Title
Prácticas estéticas antirracistas en México desde una perspectiva crítica de género: la obra de Petrona de la Cruz.
- Authors
Pérez Vera, Amarilis
- Abstract
This paper is about anti-racist performative aesthetic practices in Mexico, a line of research that I developed in my doctoral dissertation, which also was about such practices in the Chicano community of California, United States. For now, we will be thinking on how performative aesthetic practices (re)produce a theoretical-methodological praxis based on an embodied knowledge that confronts the gender violence related to the specificities of racism in Mexico. In the process, the agency of individuals or groups of people, who suffer because of racism, is restored. For this purpose, we will analyze the performance: Dulces y Amargos Sueños by Petrona de la Cruz Cruz. This analysis allows us to formulate questions about the ideology of miscegenation and concerning indigenous women in the Mexican nation. De la Cruz Cruz negotiates between the mestizo national identity and her own identities, positioning herself from her personal experiences as indigenous woman. In the end, one can be aware of how gender violence and racism are intertwined in Mexico. The artist intervenes in the social, aesthetic, and poetic reality itself, introducing new forms of self-representation through her interests, language, materials, rhythms, colors, ideological and theoretical perspectives. I used two research strategies: archival and fieldwork. Data have been collected from academic papers about racism, miscegenation, and art; as well as from the live experience of performance and its documentary review.
- Subjects
MEXICO; ANTI-racism; AESTHETICS; MEXICAN Americans -- Social conditions; VIOLENCE against women
- Publication
Intersecoes: Revista de Estudios Interdisciplinares, 2021, Vol 23, Issue 3, p663
- ISSN
1517-6088
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12957/irei.2022.64918