Overview
- This work speaks to a visibly growing sector of gay men among a predominantly young Latino national group (its majority being Chicano/Mexicano) in need of a literature sensitive to different discourses of culture, cultural citizenship, and sexuality as queer Chicanos/Mexicanos examine their lived experience with fathers, fathering, and fatherhood
- Builds on growing interest on the topic of gay men and father/son relationships
- Written mostly through the voices of queer Chicano/Mexicano sons
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology (PSLA)
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About this book
Bringing together a unique collection of narrative accounts based on the lived experience of queer Chicano/Mexicano sons, this book explores fathers, fathering, and fatherhood. In many ways, the contributors reveal the significance of fathering and representations of fatherhood in the context of queer male sexuality and identity across generations, cultures, class, and Mexican immigrant and Mexican American families. They further reveal how father figures—godfathers, grandfathers, and others—may nurture and express love and hope for the queer young men in their extended family. Divided into six sections, the book addresses the complexity of father-queer son relationships; family dynamics; the impact of neurodiverse mental health issues; the erotic, unsafe, and taboo qualities of desire; encounters with absent, estranged or emotionally distant fathers; and a critical analysis of father and queer son relationships in Chicano/Latino literature and film.
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Table of contents (30 chapters)
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Front Matter
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“Can I Write About My Father?”: Representations of the Presence of Being
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Fathers, Father Figures, and the Family
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Fatherhood, Queer Consciousness, and Neurodiversity
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Adelaida R. Del Castillo is Associate Professor and former Chair of the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at San Diego State University, USA. She has published on sex/gender meaning and economic survival strategies in Mexico City and is co-editor of Queer in Aztlán: Chicano Male Recollections of Consciousness and Coming Out (Lambda Literary Awards Finalist).
Gibrán Güido is a PhD candidate in the Department of Literature at the University of California at San Diego, USA, and a founding member of the Association for Jotería Arts, Activities, and Scholarship (AJAAS). He co-edited Queer in Aztlán: Chicano Male Recollections of Consciousness and Coming Out (Lambda Literary Awards Finalist).
Gibrán Güido is a PhD candidate in the Department of Literature at the University of California at San Diego, USA, and a founding member of the Association for Jotería Arts, Activities, and Scholarship (AJAAS). He co-edited Queer in Aztlán: Chicano Male Recollections of Consciousness and Coming Out (Lambda Literary Awards Finalist).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fathers, Fathering, and Fatherhood
Book Subtitle: Queer Chicano/Mexicano Desire and Belonging
Editors: Adelaida R. Del Castillo, Gibrán Güido
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60877-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60876-7Published: 30 April 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60879-8Published: 30 April 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-60877-4Published: 29 April 2021
Series ISSN: 2946-4218
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4226
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 287
Number of Illustrations: 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Gender Studies, Latino Culture, Cultural Studies