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DEDICATION
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PREFACE: Facing Shame
CHAPTER: 1 Introduction to Shaming into Brown:
Somatic Transactions of
Race in Latina/o Literature
THE PAIN OF SHAME
THE STEPS IN SCENES OF RACIALIZATION
SOMA AS STRATEGY IN SCENES OF RACIALIZATION
METHODOLOGY AND ORGANIZATION
CHAPTER OVERVIEW
CHAPTER 2: Latin@/x Literature and the Human Sensorium
SENSE PERCEPTION AND SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE
THE SENSES IN COGNITION AND KNOWLEDGE
HISTORICAL ANTECEDENTS
INTRODUCING SOMATIC ANALYSIS AND SHAMING THROUGH THE PROPER NAME
THE DECIPHERABILITY OF THE SOMA
SIGHT
OLFACTION
THE AUDITORY MODALITY
CHAPTER 3: Soma and Viscera in Oscar “Zeta” Acosta’s The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
SCENE OF RACIALIZATION: IN THE BATHROOM WITH DR. SERBIN
SITUATING THE SOMATIC GUT AND ERUDITION
OSCAR’S GUT AND INTERNALIZED INTERSECTIONAL RACIALIZATION
SCENE OF RACIALIZATION: RACE AND UNREQUITED CHILDHOOD LOVE
THE INTELLECTUAL STOMACHACHE AND BEAUTIFUL VOMIT
CHAPTER 4 The Ugly Soma Speaks Out in Octavio Solís’s Lydia
THE POLITICS OF ACTING STYLE
CECI-THE-BODY
THE LEGACY OF THE UGLY LAWS
SPEAKING CECI, CECI-THE-SOLILOQUIST
MAGICO NANNY: LYDIA AS RACIALIZED DOMESTIC WORKER ARCHETYPE
DOPPELGANGERS AS POLITICAL CRITIQUE
CHAPTER 5: The Political Work of Sophia: The Blessed Soma, the Conversion Narrative,
and Shame in Andrés Montoya’s
The Ice Worker Sings and Other Poems
“THE FINEST BOOK OF POETRY TO COME OUT OF OUR COMMUNITY”—RIGOBERTO GONZÁLEZ
U.S. SOCIAL LOGIC OF SHAME
THE PRESENTATION OF RACIAL SHAME AND THE ARRIVAL OF THE SPIRITUAL SIGN
FINDING SOPHIA AND THE ARRIVAL OF THE SIGN
PUBLIC SHAMING AND CONTEMPORARY U.S. CULTURE
WHO BROWNS AMERICA?
THE BIBLICAL SOMA
WHEN WORDS ARE NOT ALLOWED
CONVERSION NARRATIVE SECRETS
VIOLENCE SHAMES TO SILENCE
CONCLUSION: The Soma and Transdisciplinary Beginnings
NOTES TO THE PREFACE
NOTES TO CHAPTER 1
NOTES TO CHAPTER 2
NOTES TO CHAPTER 3
NOTES TO CHAPTER 4
NOTES TO CHAPTER 5
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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