3.51 C Mexican Lucha Libre as Baroque and Neo-Baroque Expression poster

3.51 C Mexican Lucha Libre as Baroque and Neo-Baroque Expression poster

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A poster promoting a Scholarship Matters faculty presentation by Dr. Jessica Lynam

December 6, 2012

TheCollege of Arts & Humanities

3.51 C

Christopher Newport University, All Rights Reserved

Dr. Jessica Lynam (Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures) holds an MA and PhD from Western Michigan University in Spanish with an emphasis in Latin American literature. Her primary area ofspecialization is contemporary Mexican narrative, and her research interests extend to Latin American fiction, Latin American and transnational cultural studies, and Latino literature in the U.S. In addition to numerous conference presentations, she recently pubhed her research in the highly ranked journal Chasqui and has forthcoming publications in Caribe and Hispania, the journal of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.

Thanks to recent pop-culture representations, U.S. audiences have become acquainted with lucha libre, masked Mexican wrestling. This presentation will demonsrate that, instead of a mere kitschy cultural curio, this sport and performance belongs to a rich Mexican Baroque and neo-Baroque tradition that simultaneously celebrates and suberts contemporary Mexican hegemonic discourse.

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