Latin American Identity in Online Cultural Production by Claire Taylor Thea Pitman

Author:Claire Taylor, Thea Pitman [Claire Taylor, Thea Pitman]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Media Studies, Regional Studies, Popular Culture
ISBN: 9781135085551
Google: oevbnvyHq18C
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-03-05T04:45:42+00:00

Kuhnheim’s critique here could well be levelled at the images on display in The New Barbarians, since the images of the barbarous bodies as simultaneously pleasurable and erotic have a long history in European definitions of the indigenous American other, from early figurations of indigenous women as Amazons and onwards.20 Regarding this long history, scholars such as Anne McClintock have argued that the colonial gaze was a type of ‘porno-tropics’ in which women functioned as ‘imperial boundary markers’ (McClintock 1995:25), while Fernanda Peñaloza has discussed how the portrayal of indigenous women as ‘highly eroticised object[s] performing for the benefit of male pleasure’ is part of ‘larger tropes of territorial conquest’ (Peñaloza 2010:470). In this light, the question therefore remains of whether Gómez-Peña’s work ends up reexoticising the Chicana body. Undoubtedly the intent of Gómez-Peña’s playing with these images is to question their validity, in the same way in which Alaimo, in her discussion of ‘Border Brujo’ has argued that the very hyperabundance of Mexican and Mexican American characters is a deconstructive strategy which ‘allows it to resist reification, commodification, and epistemologies of control’ (Alaimo 2000:178). That said, in The New Barbarians, it remains to be seen whether such hyperabundance is enough, or whether it ends up reinforcing stereotypes of barbarous/erotic female bodies.

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