Feeling Brown, Feeling Down: Latina Affect, the Performativity of Race, and the Depressive Position

Feeling Brown, Feeling Down: Latina Affect, the Performativity of Race, and the Depressive Position

This essay dwells on a particular depiction of depression that most certainly speaks to the general moment but resists the pull of crypto-universalism. The art project at the center of this essay considers how depression itself is formed and organized around various historical and material contingen...

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Veröffentlicht in:Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 2006-04, Vol.31 (3), p.675-688
1. Verfasser: Munoz, Jose Esteban
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Artists
Bustamante, Nao
Cognitive Mapping
Critical Theory
Cultural identity
Depression
Depression (Psychology)
Depressive disorders
Desire
Essays
Ethnic Identity
Feminism
Feminist theory
Gender
Gender issues
Latino people
Literary theory
Mental depression
Motion pictures
Movies
Paranoid disorders
Particularity
Performance art
Race
Racial discrimination
Racial identity
Relational sociology
Self
Sex
Sex discrimination
Sexual identity
Social Factors
Translation
Visual culture
War reparations
Women
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Zusammenfassung:This essay dwells on a particular depiction of depression that most certainly speaks to the general moment but resists the pull of crypto-universalism. The art project at the center of this essay considers how depression itself is formed and organized around various historical and material contingencies that include race, gender, and sex.
ISSN:0097-9740
1545-6943
DOI:10.1086/499080