Date of Award
1-1-2016
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Organizational Unit
College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, Communication Studies
First Advisor
Bernadette M. Calafell, Ph.D.
Second Advisor
Kate Willink
Third Advisor
Roy Wood
Fourth Advisor
Luís León
Keywords
Decolonial theory and praxis, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, LGBTQ, Chicanos, Latinx communication studies, Oral history performance, Queer of color critique, Rhetorical criticism and theory
Abstract
By collecting the cultural/historical narratives of gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (GBTQ) Chicanos of Colorado, this research project locates theories in the flesh, or theories of resistance and agency, in the forms of cuentos, pláticas, chismé, mitos, testimonios, and consejos to explicate a queer of color performance of intersectional and decolonial politics. To set the context, several historical and political snapshots of GBTQ Chicano experience over the last 500 years are reviewed to demonstrate how communication about, for, and between GBTQ Chicanos operate in a liminal state (nepantla) where violence, marginalization, and oppression are the cultural norm. To honor the performative, queer, and decolonial approach to this project, the Four Seasons of Oral History Performance was developed and utilized as a cyclical, creation-centered method for collecting and sharing social science research. In the end, GBTQ Chicanos are challenged by inter- and intra-generational divides that make "coming-out" regardless of age in this historical/political moment a traumatic event where ones intersectional cultural identity is under attack from multiple vectors. From these erasures, traumas, and violence, GBTQ Chicanos create theories in the flesh to carve out spaces to survive and thrive from the fringes: this work collects their histories.
Publication Statement
Copyright is held by the author. User is responsible for all copyright compliance.
Rights Holder
Robert Mitchell Gutierrez
Provenance
Received from ProQuest
File Format
application/pdf
Language
en
File Size
188 p.
Recommended Citation
Gutierrez, Robert Mitchell, "Jotería-Historias: Theories from the Fringes" (2016). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1128.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/1128
Copyright date
2016
Discipline
Communication, LGBTQ studies, Ethnic Studies
Included in
Chicana/o Studies Commons, Communication Commons, Ethnic Studies Commons, Latina/o Studies Commons, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Commons